Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with spatially correlated noise: a unified picture from nonperturbative renormalization group

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2014 Feb;89(2):022108. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.022108. Epub 2014 Feb 10.

Abstract

We investigate the scaling regimes of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation in the presence of spatially correlated noise with power-law decay D(p) ∼ p(-2ρ) in Fourier space, using a nonperturbative renormalization group approach. We determine the full phase diagram of the system as a function of ρ and the dimension d. In addition to the weak-coupling part of the diagram, which agrees with the results from Europhys. Lett. 47, 14 (1999) and Eur. Phys. J. B 9, 491 (1999), we find the two fixed points describing the short-range- (SR) and long-range- (LR) dominated strong-coupling phases. In contrast with a suggestion in the references cited above, we show that, for all values of ρ, there exists a unique strong-coupling SR fixed point that can be continuously followed as a function of d. We show in particular that the existence and the behavior of the LR fixed point do not provide any hint for 4 being the upper critical dimension of the KPZ equation with SR noise.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Colloids / chemistry*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Models, Chemical*
  • Models, Statistical*
  • Stochastic Processes*

Substances

  • Colloids