Single interface growth: Fluctuations and the correlation length

I. Hecht, A. Be'er, H. Taitelbaum

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Growth behavior of interfaces is usually described by a power-law of the growth in time of the interface width. This general scaling picture is an average behavior description, which may not be valid when only a finite number of interfaces is considered. In this work we study theoretically and experimentally the growth behavior of single interfaces and show that the growth of the interface width always exhibits a non-monotonic, fluctuating behavior. We study numerically the Quenched-noise Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (QKPZ) equation, using different noise distributions, and show that this behavior results from competing mechanisms of normal growth and surface tension forces in this equation. We define a new measure of the interface width fluctuations and present a way to extract the correlation length of the interface from these fluctuations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)L319-L324
JournalFluctuation and Noise Letters
Volume5
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2005
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Correlation length
  • Fluctuations
  • Interface dynamics
  • QKPZ equation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Mathematics
  • General Physics and Astronomy

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Single interface growth: Fluctuations and the correlation length'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this