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Lack of Self-affinity and Anomalous Roughening in Growth Processes

Condensed Matter 2016-08-15 v1

Abstract

We contrast analytical results of a variety of growth models involving subdiffusion, thermal noise and quenched disorder with simulations of these models, concluding that the assumed self-affinity property is more an exception than a rule. In our two dimensional models, self-affine surfaces may only appear when the roughness exponent is χ=1/2\chi = 1/2 or χ=1\chi = 1. A new scaling picture, which leads to more suitable ways of determining the scaling exponents, is proposed when lack of self-affinity exists.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9603180,
  title  = {Lack of Self-affinity and Anomalous Roughening in Growth Processes},
  author = {Juan M. López and Miguel A. Rodríguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9603180},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages in Postcript format, 2 figures included in separated compressed files, uuencoded, (submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.)