Stationary growth and unique invariant harmonic measure of cylindrical diffusion limited aggregation

Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Aug 10;109(6):065501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.065501. Epub 2012 Aug 8.

Abstract

We prove that the harmonic measure is stationary, unique, and invariant on the interface of diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) growing on a cylinder surface. We provide a detailed theoretical analysis puzzling together multiscaling, multifractality, and conformal invariance, supported by extensive numerical simulations of clusters built using conformal mappings and on a lattice. The growth properties of the active and frozen zones are clearly elucidated. We show that the unique scaling exponent characterizing the stationary growth is the DLA fractal dimension.