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1Department of Physics, Inha University, Inchon 402-751, Korea.
Abstract:
The scaling properties of a random walker subject to the global constraint that it needs to visit each site an even number of times are determined. Such walks are realized in the equilibrium state of one-dimensional surfaces that are subject to dissociative-dimer-type surface dynamics. Moreover, they can be mapped onto unconstrained random walks on a random surface, and the latter corresponds to a non-Hermitian random free fermion model that describes electron localization near a band edge. We show analytically that the dynamic exponent of this random walk is z=d+2 in spatial dimension d. This explains the anomalous roughness, with exponent alpha=1/3, in one-dimensional equilibrium surfaces with dissociative-dimer-type dynamics.
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