Crystal surfaces with correlated disorder: Phase transitions between roughening and superroughening
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
A theory for surface transitions in the presence of a disordered pinning potential is presented. Arbitrary disorder correlations are treated in the framework of a dynamical functional renormalization group. The roughening transition, where surface roughness and mobility behave discontinuously, is shown to turn smoothly into the continuous superroughening transition, when the range of disorder correlations is decreased. Implications for random-field -models and vortex glasses are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9506037,
title = {Crystal surfaces with correlated disorder: Phase transitions between roughening and superroughening},
author = {Stefan Scheidl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9506037},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages with 2 figures, latex+revtex