GROWTH OF SURFACES GENERATED BY A PROBABILISTIC CELLULAR AUTOMATION

Pratip Bhattacharyya ()
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Pratip Bhattacharyya: Low Temperature Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sector – 1, Block – AF, Bidhannagar, Calcutta 700 064, India

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 1999, vol. 10, issue 01, 165-181

Abstract: A one-dimensional cellular automaton with a probabilistic evolution rule can generate stochastic surface growth in(1+1)dimensions. Two such discrete models of surface growth are constructed from a probabilistic cellular automaton which is known to show a transition from an active phase to an absorbing phase at a critical probability associated with two particular components of the evolution rule. In one of these models, called Model A in this paper, the surface growth is defined in terms of the evolving front of the cellular automaton on the space-time plane. In the other model, called Model B, surface growth takes place by a solid-on-solid deposition process controlled by the cellular automaton configurations that appear in successive time-steps. Both the models show a depinning transition at the critical point of the generating cellular automaton. In addition, Model B shows a kinetic roughening transition at this point. The characteristics of the surface width in these models are derived by scaling arguments from the critical properties of the generating cellular automaton and by Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords: Surface growth; Probabilistic cellular Automata; Depinning transition; Correlated deposition; Kinetic roughening (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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