Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1995-01-20
Physics
Condensed Matter
21 pp. (latex, now texable everywhere, no other changes), with 2 fig.
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(95)00268-W
The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation of nonlinear stochastic growth in d dimensions is studied using the mapping onto a system of directed polymers in a quenched random medium. The polymer problem is renormalized exactly in a minimally subtracted perturbation expansion about d = 2. For the KPZ roughening transition in dimensions d > 2, this renormalization group yields the dynamic exponent z* = 2 and the roughness exponent chi* = 0, which are exact to all orders in epsilon = (2 - d)/2. The expansion becomes singular in d = 4, which is hence identified with the upper critical dimension of the KPZ equation. The implications of this perturbation theory for the strong-coupling phase are discussed. In particular, it is shown that the correlation functions and the coupling constant defined in minimal subtraction develop an essential singularity at the strong-coupling fixed point.
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