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Dynamic roughening: Nucleation and stochastic equations

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  • Tartaglino, Ugo
  • Levi, Andrea C

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A crystal surface, which in equilibrium shows a thermal roughening transition, may roughen, under growth conditions, beneath the equilibrium transition temperature. After discussing a simple nucleation approach, this topic is treated from a point of view based on the Chui–Weeks stochastic differential equation. Numerical solutions are presented. Special care has been made in order to get a reliable algorithm and a correct sampling for numerical integration. Scaling properties are also discussed: they appear to be essential to choose good values of the parameters ν, Y, D. A finite size effect in equilibrium, revealed by numerical computations and related to dynamic roughening, is discussed. The ratio D/ν between the coefficients of the noise and Laplacian terms plays the role of temperature; off equilibrium, the dependence of the growth velocity on the flux and on the strength of the layering potential shows a non-trivial, non-linear behaviour, going over from a Becker–Döring to a Wilson–Frenkel growth mode.

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  • Tartaglino, Ugo & Levi, Andrea C, 2000. "Dynamic roughening: Nucleation and stochastic equations," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 277(1), pages 83-105.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:277:y:2000:i:1:p:83-105
    DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00472-0
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