title: Interface depinning in the absence of an external driving force.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Física de Cantabria, CSIC-UC, E-39005 Santander, Spain. ramasco@ifca.unican.es
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Ramasco
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: López
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Rodríguez