paper

Phase ordering and roughening on growing films

arXiv:cond-mat/0002032 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.614

Abstract

We study the interplay between surface roughening and phase separation during the growth of binary films. Already in 1+1 dimension, we find a variety of different scaling behaviors depending on how the two phenomena are coupled. In the most interesting case, related to the advection of a passive scalar in a velocity field, nontrivial scaling exponents are obtained in simulations.

4 pages latex, 6 figures