Super-roughening versus intrinsic anomalous scaling of surfaces

Details Super-roughening versus intrinsic anomalous scaling of surfaces Super-roughening versus intrinsic anomalous scaling of surfaces

1997-03-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9703024v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, 6 figures, Revtex (uses epsfig), Phys. Rev. E, submitted

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.56.3993

In this paper we study kinetically rough surfaces which display anomalous scaling in their local properties such as roughness, or height-height correlation function. By studying the power spectrum of the surface and its relation to the height-height correlation, we distinguish two independent causes for anomalous scaling. One is super-roughening (global roughness exponent larger than or equal to one), even if the spectrum behaves non anomalously. Another cause is what we term an intrinsically anomalous spectrum, in whose scaling an independent exponent exists, which induces different scaling properties for small and large length scales (that is, the surface is not self-affine). In this case, the surface does not need to be super-rough in order to display anomalous scaling. In both cases, we show how to extract the independent exponents and scaling relations from the correlation functions, and we illustrate our analysis with two exactly solvable examples. One is the simplest linear equation for molecular beam epitaxy , well known to display anomalous scaling due to super-roughening. The second example is a random diffusion equation, which features anomalous scaling independent of the value of the global roughness exponent below or above one.

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