Table 8.

Activation energies E _a for forward and backward dimer and trimer self‐diffusion processes on Mg(10$\bar{1}$ 1) calculated with Equation (2) (PBE).

Diffusion on Mg(10$\bar{1}$ 1)	Path	Pathway	E a for [eV]	E a rev [eV]
dimer	merge	d0↔d1	0.25	0.58
		d2↔d3	0.19	0.13
		d3↔d1	0.15	0.51
		d4↔d1	0.37	0.67
	concerted	cd0↔cd1	0.54	0.54
trimer	merge	t0↔t1	0.26	0.58
		t2↔t3	0.19	0.20
		t3↔t1	0.27	0.54
		t4↔t5	0.31	0.57
		t5↔t1	0.24	0.28