Martin Siegert

Coarsening Dynamics of Crystalline Thin Films

The formation of pyramidlike structures in thin-film growth on substrates with a quadratic symmetry, e.g.,

Scaling of Growing Surfaces with Large Local Slopes

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Ordering dynamics of surfaces in molecular beam epitaxy

surfaces, is shown to exhibit anisotropic scaling as there exist two length scales with different time dependences. Numerical results indicate that for most realizations coarsening of mounds is described by an exponent

CONTRASTS BETWEEN COARSENING AND RELAXATIONAL DYNAMICS OF SURFACES

n\ensuremath{\simeq}1/4

Non-equilibrium ordering dynamics and pattern formation

. However, depending on material parameters it is shown that

Critical behaviour of modulated phases in the chiral clock model

n

Mean-field theory of the three-state chiral clock model

may lie between 0 (logarithmic coarsening) and 1/3. In contrast, growth on substrates with triangular symmetries

The Bethe approximation to the three-state chiral clock model

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Layering transitions in the chiral clock model: Bethe approximation

surfaces

Pyramid Formation and Coarsening During Homoepitaxial Growth

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