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Crossover effects in a discrete deposition model with Kardar-Parisi-Zhang scaling

2002; American Physical Society; Volume: 66; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreve.66.051104

1538-4519

Anna Chame, F. D. A. Aarão Reis,

Material Dynamics and Properties

We simulated a growth model in (1+1) dimensions in which particles are aggregated according to the rules of ballistic deposition with probability p or according to the rules of random deposition with surface relaxation (Family model) with probability 1-p. For any p>0, this system is in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class, but it presents a slow crossover from the Edwards-Wilkinson class (EW) for small p. From the scaling of the growth velocity, the parameter p is connected to the coefficient lambda of the nonlinear term of the KPZ equation, giving lambda approximately p(gamma), with gamma=2.1+/-0.2. Our numerical results confirm the interface width scaling in the growth regime as W approximately lambda(beta)t(beta) and the scaling of the saturation time as tau approximately lambda(-1)L(z), with the expected exponents beta=1/3 and z=3/2, and strong corrections to scaling for small lambda. This picture is consistent with a crossover time from EW to KPZ growth in the form t(c) approximately lambda(-4) approximately p(-8), in agreement with scaling theories and renormalization group analysis. Some consequences of the slow crossover in this problem are discussed and may help investigations of more complex models.