Roughening phase transition in surface growth
- 19 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 64 (8) , 926-929
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.926
Abstract
We present first systematic numerical simulation results which show a strong indication of phase transitions, in both 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions, between weak-coupling and strong-coupling regimes in a surface-growth model. A modified ballistic deposition model is used to demonstrate the transitions and the roughness scaling exponent is measured. While the transition in 3+1 dimensions confirms the prediction of the renormalization-group analysis, the one in 2+1 dimensions had not been previously anticipated and exhibits a complex critical behavior.Keywords
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