Roughening of k-mer-growing interfaces in stationary regimes.

Abstract

We discuss the steady-state dynamics of interfaces with periodic boundary conditions arising from body-centered solid-on-solid growth models in 1+1 dimensions involving random aggregation of extended particles (dimers, trimers, ...,k-mers). Roughening exponents as well as width and maximal height distributions can be evaluated directly in stationary regimes by mapping the dynamics onto an asymmetric simple exclusion process with k-type of vacancies. Although for k≥2 the dynamics is partitioned into an exponentially large number of sectors of motion, the results obtained in some generic cases strongly suggest a universal scaling behavior closely following that of monomer interfaces.