Universal properties of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with quenched columnar disorders

Abstract

Inspired by the recent results on totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes on a periodic lattice with short-ranged quenched hopping rates [A. Haldar, A. Basu, Phys Rev Research 2, 043073 (2020)], we study the universal scaling properties of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation with short-ranged quenched columnar disorder in general d-dimensions. We show that there are generic propagating modes in the system that have their origin in the quenched disorder and make the system anisotropic. We argue that the presence of the propagating modes actually make the effects of the quenched disorder irrelevant, making the universal long wavelength scaling property belong to the well-known KPZ universality class. On the other hand, when these waves vanish in a special limit of the model, new universality class emerges with dimension d = 4 as the lower critical dimension, above which the system is speculated to admit a disorder-induced roughening transition to a perturbatively inaccessible rough phase.

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