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Phys. Rev. E 70, 051602 (2004) [16 pages]

Roughening of the interfaces in (1+1)-dimensional two-component surface growth with an admixture of random deposition

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A. Kolakowska, M. A. Novotny, and P. S. Verma
Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the ERC Center for Computational Sciences, P.O. Box 5167, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762-5167, USA

Received 13 March 2004; revised 9 July 2004; published 16 November 2004

We simulate competitive two-component growth on a one-dimensional substrate of L sites. One component is a Poisson-type deposition that generates Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) correlations. The other is random deposition (RD). We derive the universal scaling function of the interface width for this model and show that the RD admixture acts as a dilatation mechanism to the fundamental time and height scales, but leaves the KPZ correlations intact. This observation is generalized to other growth models. It is shown that the flat-substrate initial condition is responsible for the existence of an early nonscaling phase in the interface evolution. The length of this initial phase is a nonuniversal parameter, but its presence is universal. We introduce a method to measure the length of this initial nonscaling phase. In application to parallel and distributed computations, the important consequence of the derived scaling is the existence of the upper bound for the desynchronization in a conservative update algorithm for parallel discrete-event simulations. It is shown that such algorithms are generally scalable in a ring communication topology.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.70.051602
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.70.051602
PACS:
81.15.Aa, 89.75.Da, 89.20.Ff, 68.35.Ct