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Transition from stable to unstable growth by an inertial force
Kwangho Park1, Jae Hwan Lee, In-Mook Kim
1Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea and Institut für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg, Germany.
Abstract:
We introduce a simple growth model where the growth of the interface is affected by an inertial force and a white noise. The magnitude of the inertial force is controlled by a constant p between 0 and 1. An inertial force increases continuously from 0, as p does from 0 to 1. In our model, the interface starts growing from a flat state. When p
p(c), however, the interface width increases continuously without saturation as time elapses. We explain via simple calculation how this interesting phenomenon occurs in our model. We find p(c)=0.5 from the calculation. This critical value is in excellent agreement with the critical value p(c)=0.50(1) found from the simulations of our model.