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Kinetic surface roughening for the Mullins-Herring equation

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

Using the linearity property of the Mullins-Herring equation when the velocity is zero with a Gaussian noise, we obtain an analytic form for the global mean-square surface width and height-height correlation function. This can be used to read the critical exponents in any dimension. In particular for d=1 we show that although the surface is super rough the system exhibits Family-Vicsek scaling behavior.

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@article{arxiv.0805.4160,
  title  = {Kinetic surface roughening for the Mullins-Herring equation},
  author = {Esmat Darvish and Amir Ali Masoudi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.4160},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages

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