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Strongly Anisotropic Roughness In Surfaces Driven By An Oblique Particle Flux, Beate Schmittmann, Gunner Pruessner, Hans-Karl Janssen
Strongly Anisotropic Roughness In Surfaces Driven By An Oblique Particle Flux, Beate Schmittmann, Gunner Pruessner, Hans-Karl Janssen
Beate Schmittmann
Using field theoretic renormalization, an MBE-type growth process with an obliquely incident influx of atoms is examined. The projection of the beam on the substrate plane selects a “parallel” direction, with rotational invariance restricted to the transverse directions. Depending on the behavior of an effective anisotropic surface tension, a line of second-order transitions is identified, as well as a line of potentially first-order transitions, joined by a multicritical point. Near the second-order transitions and the multicritical point, the surface roughness is strongly anisotropic. Four different roughness exponents are introduced and computed, describing the surface in different directions, in real or …