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Depinning transition of the Mullins-Herring equation with an external driving force and quenched random disorder
1Department of Physics and Computer Aided Molecular Design Research Center, Soongsil University, Seoul 156-743, Korea.
Abstract:
We study the depinning transition of the quenched Mullins-Herring equation by direct integration method. At critical force Fc, the average surface velocity v(t) follows a power-law behavior v(t) approximately t-delta as a function of time t with delta=0.160(5). The surface width has a scaling behavior with the roughness exponent alpha=1.50(6) and the growth exponent beta=0.841(5). Above the critical force, the steady state velocity v2 follows vs approximately (F - Fc)theta with theta=0.289(8). Finite size scalings of the velocity are also discussed.
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