title: Scaling of clusters and winding-angle statistics of isoheight lines in two-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang surfaces.
abstract: We investigate the statistics of isoheight lines of (2+1) -dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang model at different level sets around the mean height in the saturation regime. We find that the exponent describing the distribution of the height-cluster size behaves differently for level cuts above and below the mean height, while the fractal dimensions of the height-clusters and their perimeters remain unchanged. The statistics of the winding angle confirms the previous observation that these contour lines are in the same universality class as self-avoiding random walks.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), 19395-5531 Tehran, Iran. a_saberi@ipm.ir
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Saberi
authors.forename: S
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authors.lastname: Rouhani