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A model for kinetic roughening of one-dimensional interfaces is presented within an intrinsic geometry framework that is free from the standard small-slope and no-overhang approximations. The model is meant to probe the consequences of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-02 Javier Rodriguez-Laguna , Silvia N. Santalla , Rodolfo Cuerno

The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class of stochastic surface growth is studied by exact field-theoretic methods. From previous numerical results, a few qualitative assumptions are inferred. In particular, height correlations should…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael Lassig

The celebrated Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation describes the kinetic roughening of stochastically growing interfaces. In one dimension, the KPZ equation is exactly solvable and its statistical properties are known to an exquisite degree.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-25 Côme Fontaine , Francesco Vercesi , Marc Brachet , Léonie Canet

In this paper I present a first attempt for a possible description of fluids dynamics by mean of a cellular automata technique. With the use of simple and elementary rules, based on random behaviour either, the model permits to obtain the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gianluca Argentini

We introduce a solid on solid lattice model for growth with conditional evaporation. A measure of finite size effects is obtained by observing the time invariance of distribution of local height fluctuations. The model parameters are chosen…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. V. Ghaisas

We introduce a new method based on cellular automata dynamics to study stochastic growth equations. The method defines an interface growth process which depends on height differences between neighbors. The growth rule assigns a probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-16 T. G. Mattos , J. G. Moreira , A. P. F. Atman

We investigate the infinite-dimensional limit of nonequilibrium surface growth by numerically integrating stochastic growth equations on a fully connected graph. In particular, we study the Edwards-Wilkinson (EW), Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-04 J. M. Marcos , J. J. Meléndez , R. Cuerno , J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

Wave scattering from rough surfaces in addition the inverse scattering is an interesting approach to obtain the surface topography properties in various fields. Analytical expression in wave scattering from some known rough surfaces, not…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-15 M. Zamani , M. Salami , S. M. Fazeli , G. R. Jafari

In this paper a simple (2+1) solid-on-solid model of the epitaxial films growth based on random deposition followed by breaking particle-particle lateral bonds and particles surface diffusion is introduced. The influence of the critical…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Kosturek , K. Malarz

We study the scaling properties of self-flattening surfaces under global suppression on surface fluctuations. Evolution of self-flattening surfaces is described by restricted solid-on-solid type monomer deposition-evaporation model with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yup Kim , S. Y. Yoon , Hyunggyu Park

In this paper we study the statistical properties of a reversible cellular automaton in two out-of-equilibrium settings. In the first part we consider two instances of the initial value problem, corresponding to the inhomogeneous quench and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Marko Medenjak , Vladislav Popkov , Tomaž Prosen , Eric Ragoucy , Matthieu Vanicat

Extended dynamical simulations have been performed on a 2+1 dimensional driven dimer lattice gas model to estimate ageing properties. The auto-correlation and the auto-response functions are determined and the corresponding scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-23 Géza Ódor , Jeffrey Kelling , Sibylle Gemming

Surface roughness is a key factor when it comes to friction and wear, as well as to other physical properties. These phenomena are controlled by mechanisms acting at small scales, in which the topography of apparently-flat surfaces is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-05 Joaquin Garcia-Suarez , Tobias Brink , Jean-François Molinari

We explore linear control of the one-dimensional non-linear Kardar--Parisi--Zhang (KPZ) equation with the goal to understand the effects the control process has on the dynamics and on the stationary state of the resulting stochastic growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-11 Priyanka , Uwe C Tauber , Michel Pleimling

Cellular automata and other discrete dynamical systems have long been studied as models of emergent complexity. Recently, neural cellular automata have been proposed as models to investigate the emerge of a more general artificial…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-07-28 Sanyam Jain , Stefano Nichele

Interfaces of phase-separated systems roughen in time due to capillary waves. Because of fluxes in the bulk, their dynamics is nonlocal in real space and is not described by the Edwards-Wilkinson or Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equations, nor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-17 Marc Besse , Giordano Fausti , Michael E. Cates , Bertrand Delamotte , Cesare Nardini

We propose a mean field theory for interfaces growing according to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation in 1+1 dimensions. The mean field equations are formulated in terms of densities at different heights, taking surface tension and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Francesco Ginelli , Haye Hinrichsen

We investigate the roughening phase transition of a $(3+1)$-dimensional elastic manifold driven by the completion between a periodic pinning potential and a randomly distributed impurities. The elastic manifold is modeled by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jae Dong Noh , Heiko Rieger

The critical behavior at the frozen/active transition in the Domany-Kinzel stochastic cellular automaton (DKCA) is studied {\it via} a surface growth process in (1+1) dimensions. At criticality, this process presents a kinetic roughening…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. P. F. Atman , Ronald Dickman , J. G. Moreira

This paper advances an analytical incremental contact model for the purely elastic or elastic-perfectly plastic Gaussian rough surfaces. The contact is modelled by the accumulation of identical circular contacts with radius given by the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Sihe Wang , Weike Yuan , Xuanming Liang , Gangfeng Wang