Modelling Interfacial Growth: An Introduction to the KPZ equation
Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting
Modelling Interfacial Growth: An Introduction to the KPZ equation
- Event time: 11:30am
- Event date: 19th November 2014
- Speaker: Justin Whitehouse (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Growing or propagating interfaces are seen across a wide range of systems, from atomic deposition to bacterial colony growth. I will describe and discuss the simple ballistic deposition (BD) model and motivate/derive the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation. If we are un/lucky I might have time to derive the KPZ scaling exponents in 1D.
References:
Kardar M., Parisi G., Zhang Y.-C., Dynamic Scaling of Growing Interfaces, PRL 56 9 1986
Barabasi A.-L., Stanley H.E., Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth, Cambridge University Press, 1995
References:
Kardar M., Parisi G., Zhang Y.-C., Dynamic Scaling of Growing Interfaces, PRL 56 9 1986
Barabasi A.-L., Stanley H.E., Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth, Cambridge University Press, 1995
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