Phase Ordering and Roughening on Growing Films

Barbara Drossel; Mehran Kardar

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.614

Phase Ordering and Roughening on Growing Films

Barbara Drossel and Mehran Kardar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 614 – Published 17 July 2000

Abstract

We study the interplay between surface roughening and phase separation during the growth of binary films. Already in $1 + 1$ dimensions, 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.

Received 3 February 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.614

Authors & Affiliations

Barbara Drossel^1,2 and Mehran Kardar³

¹Department of Physics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, England
²School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverley Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
³Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139