Pk. Maiti et D. Chowdhury, DISCRETE SOLID-ON-SOLID MODEL OF INTERFACE WITH BENDING RIGIDITY - RESTRICTED AND UNRESTRICTED STEP SIZES, International journal of modern physics b, 12(14), 1998, pp. 1531-1538
We report the results of imposing a physically motivated restriction o
n the step sizes in a (d + 1)-dimensional discrete solid-on-solid (SOS
) model, which we have proposed recently (Phys. Rev. E54, 2670 (1996))
for a d-dimensional interface with bending stiffness and interfacial
tension. We clarify some features of this model in the absence of such
restrictions. We also draw analogies between the relaxation to therma
lly roughened equilibrium states of these SOS models and nonequilibriu
m growth of some kinetically roughened model surfaces.