Soft versus Hard Dynamics for Field-driven Solid-on-Solid Interfaces
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v3 Materials Science
Abstract
Analytical arguments and dynamic Monte Carlo simulations show that the microstructure of field-driven Solid-on-Solid interfaces depends strongly on the dynamics. For nonconservative dynamics with transition rates that factorize into parts dependent only on the changes in interaction energy and field energy, respectively (soft dynamics), the intrinsic interface width is field-independent. For non-factorizing rates, such as the standard Glauber and Metropolis algorithms (hard dynamics), it increases with the field. Consequences for the interface velocity and its anisotropy are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0107615,
title = {Soft versus Hard Dynamics for Field-driven Solid-on-Solid Interfaces},
author = {Per Arne Rikvold and Miroslav Kolesik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0107615},
year = {2009}
}
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