Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2001-04-03
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.64.031606
We investigate whether surface reconstruction order exists in stationary growing states, at all length scales or only below a crossover length, $l_{\rm rec}$. The later would be similar to surface roughness in growing crystal surfaces; below the equilibrium roughening temperature they evolve in a layer-by-layer mode within a crossover length scale $l_{\rm R}$, but are always rough at large length scales. We investigate this issue in the context of KPZ type dynamics and a checker board type reconstruction, using the restricted solid-on-solid model with negative mono-atomic step energies. This is a topology where surface reconstruction order is compatible with surface roughness and where a so-called reconstructed rough phase exists in equilibrium. We find that during growth, reconstruction order is absent in the thermodynamic limit, but exists below a crossover length $l_{\rm rec}>l_{\rm R}$, and that this local order fluctuates critically. Domain walls become trapped at the ridge lines of the rough surface, and thus the reconstruction order fluctuations are slaved to the KPZ dynamics.
Chin Chen-Shan
Nijs Marcel den
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