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High dimensional behavior of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang growth dynamics

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We investigate analytically the large dimensional behavior of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) dynamics of surface growth using a recently proposed non-perturbative renormalization for self-affine surface dynamics. Within this framework, we show that the roughness exponent α\alpha decays not faster than α1/d\alpha\sim 1/d for large dd. This implies the absence of a finite upper critical dimension.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9809197,
  title  = {High dimensional behavior of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang growth dynamics},
  author = {C. Castellano and A. Gabrielli and M. Marsili and M. A. Munoz and L. Pietronero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9809197},
  year   = {2009}
}

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RevTeX, 4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. E