Bifractality in the one-dimensional Wolf-Villain model.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
We introduce a multifractal optimal detrended fluctuation analysis to study the scaling properties of the one-dimensional Wolf-Villain (WV) model for surface growth. This model produces coarsened surface morphologies for long timescales (up to 10^{9} monolayers) and its universality class remains an open problem. Our results for the multifractal exponent τ(q) reveal an effective local roughness exponent consistent with a transient given by the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth regime and Edwards-Wilkinson (EW) universality class for negative and positive q values, respectively. Therefore, although the results corroborate that long-wavelength fluctuations belong to the EW class in the hydrodynamic limit, as conjectured in the recent literature, a bifractal signature of the WV model with an MBE regime at short wavelengths was observed.