UNIVERSAL MACROSCOPIC BACKGROUND FORMATION IN SURFACE SUPERROUGHENING

Authors
Citation
Hw. Lee et D. Kim, UNIVERSAL MACROSCOPIC BACKGROUND FORMATION IN SURFACE SUPERROUGHENING, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 56(3), 1997, pp. 2347-2350
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physycs, Mathematical","Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
ISSN journal
1063651X
Volume
56
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Part
A
Pages
2347 - 2350
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-651X(1997)56:3<2347:UMBFIS>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We study a class of super-rough growth models whose structure :Factor satisfies the Family-Vicsek scaling. We demonstrate that a macroscopic background spontaneously develops in the local surface profile, which dominates the scaling of the local surface width and the height diffe rence. The shape of the macroscopic background takes a form of a finit e-order polynomial whose order is decided from the value of the global roughness exponent. Once the macroscopic background is subtracted, th e width of the resulting local surface profile satisfies the Family-Vi csek scaling. We show that this feature is universal to all super-roug h growth models, and we also discuss the difference between the macros copic background formation and the pattern formation in other models.