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Nonequilibrium dynamics of a growing interface

Hans C Fogedby

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0108177

Abstract

A growing interface subject to noise is described by the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation or, equivalently, the noisy Burgers equation. In one dimension this equation is analyzed by means of a weak noise canonical phase space approach applied to the associated Fokker-Planck equation. The growth morphology is characterized by a gas of nonlinear soliton modes with superimposed linear diffusive modes. We also discuss the ensuing scaling properties.

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