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A Kolakowska1, M A Novotny, P S Verma
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the ERC Center for Computational Sciences, P.O. Box 5167, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5167, USA.
Abstract:
We study two-component growth that mixes random deposition (RD) with a correlated growth process that occurs with probability p. We find that these composite systems are in the universality class of the correlated growth process. For RD blends with either Edwards-Wilkinson or Kardar-Parisi-Zhang processes, we identify a nonuniversal exponent in the universal scaling in p.
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