# Multiscale modeling of kinetic sluggishness in equiatomic NiCoCr and NiCoCrFeMn single-phase solid solutions Source: [Multiscale modeling of kinetic sluggishness in equiatomic NiCoCr and NiCoCrFeMn single-phase solid solutions]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-25T04:33:51.859Z Authors: Kamran Karimi, Stefanos Papanikolaou Published: 2023-04-09T15:26:04.000Z ## Abstract Complex, concentrated, multi-component alloys have been shown to display outstanding thermo-mechanical properties, that have been typically attributed to sluggish diffusion, entropic, and lattice distortion effects. Here, we investigate two metal alloys with such exemplary properties, the equiatomic, single-phase, face-centered-cubic (FCC) alloys NiCoCr and NiCoCrFeMn, and we compare their microstructural kinetics to the behaviors in a pure-Ni FCC metal. We perform long-time, kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulations, and we analyze in detail the kinetics of atomic vacancies. We find that vacancies in both concentrated alloys exhibit subdiffusive thermally driven dynamics, in direct contrast to the diffusive dynamics of pure Ni. Subdiffusive dynamics shall be attributed to dynamical sluggishness, that is modeled by a fractional Brownian random walk. Furthermore, we analyze the statistics of waiting times, and we interpret long power-law-distributed rest periods as a direct consequence of barriers' energy-scales and lattice distortions. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()