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Area of Science:

  • Surface science
  • Statistical physics
  • Materials science

Background:

  • Stochastic surfaces formed during nonequilibrium growth exhibit intrinsic roughness due to local fluctuations.
  • Accurate characterization of global and local roughness is crucial for understanding surface growth dynamics.
  • Existing methods struggle to effectively suppress short-wavelength fluctuations while preserving essential interface features.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analytically prove that the transformed mean height profile (TMHP) technique minimizes intrinsic roughness.
  • To demonstrate TMHP's ability to reduce spatial scaling corrections for enhanced roughness characterization.
  • To validate TMHP's effectiveness using the ballistic deposition (BD) model in two dimensions (d=2).

Main Methods:

  • Analytical proof of TMHP's roughness minimization property.
  • Application of TMHP to the ballistic deposition (BD) model on a d=2 substrate.
  • Determination of the local roughness exponent using TMHP with an optimal bin size.

Main Results:

  • TMHP analytically minimizes intrinsic roughness and reduces spatial scaling corrections.
  • TMHP effectively suppresses short-wavelength fluctuations while preserving longer-wavelength interface features.
  • Application to the BD model in d=2 yields a local roughness exponent consistent with global roughness estimates.

Conclusions:

  • TMHP provides a more accurate method for characterizing both global and local roughness in stochastic surfaces.
  • The study resolves a longstanding gap in the scaling analysis of the ballistic deposition model in d=2.
  • TMHP's ability to preserve essential interface features makes it valuable for surface growth studies.