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Fig. 1. (Color online) Density of carbon and deuterium as function of D fluence, for various impact energies. A depth of zero represents the midpoint of the initial surface. The color coding reflects the fraction of the maximum density (see scale on the right). First citation in article

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Fig. 2. (Color online) Time evolution of the cumulative fraction of ejected particles collected, for D impact energies of 5 eV (upper solid line), 15 eV (dashed red line), and 30 eV (lower solid line), for ejection of D (a), D₂ (b) and hydrocarbon (c). First citation in article

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Fig. 3. Collection times for sputtered hydrocarbons of different masses. First citation in article

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Fig. 4. (Color online) Yield of ejected deuterium per impact of D. Note that (D  retained)+(D  ejected)+(2  D₂  sputtered)+(D  sputtered  with  DC's)=1 and (total  D)=1−(D  retained). First citation in article

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Fig. 5. (Color online) Evolution of number of D atoms in the simulation cell with increasing fluence. First citation in article

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Fig. 6. (Color online) Decay of the average temperature change of the simulation cell for (a) 10 eV and (b) 30 eV impacts of D. First citation in article

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Fig. 7. (Color online) Average kinetic energies of D₂ (a) and D (b) ejecta as a function of D impact energy. The D₂ KE is partitioned into translational and rovibrational components. First citation in article

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Fig. 8. (Color online) Average energies of ejecta as a function of impact energy of D for (a) all hydrocarbons and (b) ejected CD₃. The error margins are standard errors obtained from six independent target surfaces. First citation in article

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Fig. 9. (Color online) Average temperatures of sputtered molecules associated with the rovibrational and c.m. translational motions. Vibrational data in (a) were not calculated since the number of vibrational degrees of freedom depends nontrivially on the geometrical chemical structure of ejected hydrocarbon. First citation in article

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Fig. 10. Sputtered hydrocarbon rovibrational energies as function of the molecular mass, for D impact energies of (a) 5 eV, (b) 10 eV, and (c) 20 eV. The rovibrational temperatures as function of mass for 20 eV impact energy are shown in (d). First citation in article

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Fig. 11. (Color online) (a) Average angular momentum of sputtered molecules as function of the D impact energy, and (b) distribution of angular momentum with mass of the molecule. The error bars represent standard errors. First citation in article

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Fig. 12. (Color online) Distributions of kinetic energies of reflected/sputtered D atoms for selected impact energies. First citation in article

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Fig. 13. Distributions of the translational energy of sputtered D₂ molecules for selected impact energies. First citation in article

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Fig. 14. Translational energy distributions of ejected hydrocarbons at impact energies of (a) 10 eV and (b) 30 eV. First citation in article

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Fig. 15. (Color online) Distributions of rovibrational energy of sputtered hydrocarbons at impact energies of (a) 10 eV and (b) 20 eV. First citation in article

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Fig. 16. Distributions of rovibrational energy of sputtered D₂ molecules at impact energies of (a) 2 eV and (b) 20 eV. First citation in article

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Fig. 17. (Color online) Distributions of vibrational and rotational energies of sputtered molecules at selected impact energies. First citation in article

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Fig. 18. (Color online) Distributions of solid angles of ejected particle momentum, dN/d_P. The thick dashed lines represent an angular distribution dN/d_P~cos _P. The same symbol-color coding is used at all pictures, even in cases when some energies are not present. First citation in article

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Fig. 19. (Color online) Distributions of ejected molecules as a function of the solid angle of the angular momentum (dN/d_L). First citation in article