Szabó, G.J.; Alava, M.J. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 301 (2001) 1, pp. 17-28
We develop a phenomenological mapping between submonolayer polynuclear growth (PNG) and the interface dynamics at and below the depinning transition in the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation for a negative non-linearity λ. This is possible since the phase transition is of first order, with no...