Study of a pair of coupled continuum equations modeling surface growth
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
In this communication we introduce a pair of coupled continuum equations to model overlayer growth with evaporation-accretion due to thermal or mechanical agitations of the substrate. We gain insight into the dynamics of growth via one-loop perturbative techniques. This allows us to analyze our numerical data. We conclude that there is a crossover behaviour from a roughening regime to a very long-time, large length scale smoothening regime.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0208046,
title = {Study of a pair of coupled continuum equations modeling surface growth},
author = {Ain-ul Huda and Omjyoti Dutta and Abhijit Mookerjee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0208046},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
21 pages, 13 figures. Submitted to J. Phys.: Condens. Matter