Abstract
Scaling arguments have contributed a lot to the understanding of the growth of rough surfaces. Usually they are based on the assumption that the size of the surface provides the only characteristic length in the system. However in experiments as well as in computer simulations one generally has to take a second length into account. It is associated with the concept of an intrinsic width or short range roughness of the surface, to be distinguished from its long range fluctuations. Two physical manifestations of such a second length will be discussed: a) The intrinsic width is a major source of corrections to scaling and should be kept small if one wants to measure roughening exponents. In computer simulations this can be achieved by an algorithm called noise reduction, b) At a nonequilibrium roughening transition the second length may diverge, so that the intrinsic width determines the anomalous roughness right at the transition. This is demonstrated for a class of growth models, where analytical as well as numerical results are available.
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Wolf, D.E. (1990). Growth of Rough and Facetted Surfaces. In: Lagally, M.G. (eds) Kinetics of Ordering and Growth at Surfaces. NATO ASI Series, vol 239. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0653-5_25
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