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Quantized Scaling of Growing Surfaces

arXiv:cond-mat/9711037 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2366

Abstract

The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class of stochastic surface growth is studied by exact field-theoretic methods. From previous numerical results, a few qualitative assumptions are inferred. In particular, height correlations should satisfy an operator product expansion and, unlike the correlations in a turbulent fluid, exhibit no multiscaling. These properties impose a quantization condition on the roughness exponent and the dynamic exponent . Hence the exact values for two-dimensional and for three-dimensional surfaces are derived.

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