Using a Monte Carlo technique, a simulation study was made of vacancy migration in the binary ordered alloys AB (simple cubic) and B3A (face-centered cubic). The resulting self-diffusion was calculated and in the first case compared very favorably with existing experimental results for a body-centered binary alloy. Quite different results were predicted for an alloy of the form B3A and it was hoped that comparison with experiment would establish the importance of the isolated-vacancy mechanism as the means for producing self-diffusion.

Monte Carlo Studies of Vacancy Migration in Binary Ordered Alloys: I. W.M.Young, E.W.Elcock: Proceedings of the Physical Society, 1966, 89[3], 735-46