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Universality Classes for Interface Growth with Quenched Disorder

Condensed Matter 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We present numerical evidence that there are two distinct universality classes characterizing driven interface roughening in the presence of quenched disorder. The evidence is based on the behavior of λ\lambda, the coefficient of the nonlinear term in the growth equation. Specifically, for three of the models studied, λ\lambda \rightarrow \infty at the depinning transition, while for the two other models, λ0\lambda \rightarrow 0.

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9403089,
  title  = {Universality Classes for Interface Growth with Quenched Disorder},
  author = {LAN Amaral and A-L Barabasi and HE Stanley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9403089},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages and 3 figures (upon request), REVTeX 3.0, (submitted to PRL)

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