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Kinetic Roughening of Interfaces in Driven Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Bruno Grossmann ,
Hong Guo  and
Martin Grant
Bruno Grossmann
Affiliation:
Centre for the Physics of Materials, and Department of Physics, McGill University, Rutherford Building, 3600 University Street, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8
Hong Guo
Affiliation:
Centre for the Physics of Materials, and Department of Physics, McGill University, Rutherford Building, 3600 University Street, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8
Martin Grant
Affiliation:
Centre for the Physics of Materials, and Department of Physics, McGill University, Rutherford Building, 3600 University Street, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8
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We study the dynamics of an interface driven far from equilibrium in three dimensions. The relationship of the phenomena to self-organized critical phenomena is discussed. Numerical results are obtained for three models which simulate the growth of an interface: the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, a discrete version of that model, and a solid-on-solid model with asymmetric rates of evaporation and condensation. We show that the three models belong to the same dynamical universality class by estimating the dynamical scaling exponents and the scaling functions. We confirm the results by a careful study of the crossover effects. In particular, we propose a crossover scaling ansatz and verify it numerically. Furthermore, the discrete models exhibit a kinetic roughening transition. We study this phenomenon by monitoring the surface step energy which shows a drastic jump at a finite temperature for a given driving force. At the same temperature, a finite size scaling analysis on the bond energy fluctuation shows a diverging peak [1].

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 205: Symposium F – Kinetics of Phase Transformations , 1990 , 429
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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