Single tensionless transition in the Laplacian roughening model

dc.creatorRuiz-Lorenzo, Juan Jesus
dc.creatorMoro, Esteban
dc.creatorCuerno, Rodolfo
dc.date2006-01-23
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dc.descriptionWe report large scale Monte Carlo simulations of the equilibrium discrete Laplacian roughening (dLr) model, originally introduced as the simplest one accommodating the hexatic phase in two-dimensional melting. The dLr model is also relevant to surface roughening in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Our data suggest a single phase transition, possibly of the Kosterlitz-Thouless type, between a flat low-temperature phase and a rough, tensionless, high-temperature phase. Thus, earlier conclusions on the order of the phase transition and on the existence of a hexatic phase are seen as due to finite size effects, the phase diagram of the dLr model being similar to that of a continuum analog previously formulated in the context of surface growth by MBE.
dc.description4 pages, 4 figures. Accepted as a Rapid Communication in Phys. Rev. E
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601514
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601514
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. E 73, 015103 (2006)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevE.73.015103
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/107080
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectSoft Condensed Matter
dc.titleSingle tensionless transition in the Laplacian roughening model
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