Non-universality of front fluctuations for compact colonies of non-motile bacteria

Silvia N. Santalla, Javier Rodríguez-Laguna, José P. Abad +5

The front of a compact bacterial colony growing on a Petri dish is a paradigmatic instance of non-equilibrium fluctuations in the celebrated Eden, or Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ), uni…