Interface depinning in the absence of an external driving force.
We study the pinning-depinning phase transition of interfaces in the quenched Kardar-Parisi-Zhang model as the external driving force F goes towards zero. For a fixed value of the driving force, we induce depinning by increasing the nonlinear term coefficient lambda, which is related to lateral growth, up to a critical threshold. We focus on the case in which there is no external force applied (F=0) and find that, contrary to a simple scaling prediction, there is a finite value of lambda that makes the interface to become depinned. The critical exponents at the transition are consistent with directed percolation depinning.
Ramasco
J J
JJ
Instituto de Física de Cantabria, CSIC-UC, E-39005 Santander, Spain. ramasco@ifca.unican.es
López
J M
JM
Rodríguez
M A
MA