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Universality classes of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v3

Abstract

We re-examine mode-coupling theory for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation in the strong coupling limit and show that there exists two branches of solutions. One branch (or universality class) only exists for dimensionalities d<dc=2d<d_c=2 and is similar to that found by a variety of analytic approaches, including replica symmetry breaking and Flory-Imry-Ma arguments. The second branch exists up to dc=4d_c=4 and gives values for the dynamical exponent zz similar to those of numerical studies for d2d\ge2.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0604301,
  title  = {Universality classes of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation},
  author = {L. Canet and M. A. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0604301},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, published version