Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-04-14
Europhysics Letters (EPL) 89, 6 (3010) 60005
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
10.1209/0295-5075/89/60005
Relaxation of initially out-of-equilibrium rough interfaces in presence of thermal noise is investigated using Langevin formalism. During thermal equilibration towards the well-known roughening regime, three scaling regimes observed over three successive ranges of length-scales are evidenced: thermal roughening (late stage) at small scales, transient smoothening at intermediate scales and remnant of the initial conditions at large scales. A generalization of the Family-Vicsek scaling is found for the smoothening regime. A distinctive feature of the transient smoothening regime resides in the existence of a super-universal exponent, i.e. independent of the considered model. This approach allows interpreting a series of AFM images of sapphire surfaces showing the thermal evolution of initially rough step edges.
Barbier Luc
Bonamy Daniel
Cousty Jacques
Thuy Nguyen Thi Thu
Vam Laurent Phan
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