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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 20: POSTERS Driven Soft Matter

CPP 20.22: Poster

Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 16:00–18:30, Poster A

Growth and Pattern Formation in the Kardar Parisi Zhang equation — •Hans Fogedby — Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

A nonperturbative weak noise scheme is applied to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation for a growing interface in all dimensions. It is shown that the growth morphology can be interpreted in terms of a dynamically evolving texture of localized growth modes with superimposed diffusive modes. Applying Derrick's theorem it is conjectured that the upper critical dimension is four.