Surface Diffusion in the Solid-on-Solid Model
- 20 February 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 74 (8) , 1395-1398
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.74.1395
Abstract
We present results in and dimensions for surface diffusion controlled profile relaxation for the solid-on-solid model above and below the roughening transition. For all cases examined we found that the characteristic time scale for the decay of a sinusoidal profile scaled with the wavelength as where . These results can be understood in terms of the anomalous diffusion displayed by tracer atoms whose root mean square displacement scaled as .
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