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Schematic illustration of the three components in the Langevin description of surface diffusion: (i) a (static) adsorbate-substrate potential energy surface, (ii) adsorbate-substrate coupling in terms of the rate of energy transfer (friction η and excitations ξ(t))) and (iii) pairwise interactions between the adsorbates.
