Numerical study of roughness distributions in nonlinear models of interface growth

Details Numerical study of roughness distributions in nonlinear models of interface growth Numerical study of roughness distributions in nonlinear models of interface growth

2005-08-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0508238v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

12 pages, including 4 figures; accepted in Phys. Rev. E

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We analyze the shapes of roughness distributions of discrete models in the Kardar, Parisi and Zhang (KPZ) and in the Villain, Lai and Das Sarma (VLDS) classes of interface growth, in one and two dimensions. Three KPZ models in d=2 confirm the expected scaling of the distribution and show a stretched exponential tail approximately as exp[-x^(0.8)], with a significant asymmetry near the maximum. Conserved restricted solid-on-solid models belonging to the VLDS class were simulated in d=1 and d=2. The tail in d=1 has the form exp(-x^2) and, in d=2, has a simple exponential decay, but is quantitatively different from the distribution of the linear fourth-order (Mullins-Herring) theory. It is not possible to fit any of the above distributions to those of 1/f^\alpha noise interfaces, in contrast with recently studied models with depinning transitions.

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