Luís A. Nunes Amaral

co-Director, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering
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Universality classes for interface growth with quenched disorder

Amaral LAN, Barabasi AL, Stanley HE
Physical Review Letters 73, 62-65 (1994)
Times cited: 84

Abstract

We present numerical evidence for the existence of two distinct universality classes characterizing driven interface roughening in the presence of quenched disorder. The evidence is based on the behavior of lambda, the coefficient of the nonlinear term in the growth equation. Specifically, for three of the models studied, lambda --> infinity at the depinning transition, while for the two other models, lambda --> 0.