{ "id": "1001.4596", "version": "v1", "published": "2010-01-26T05:47:06.000Z", "updated": "2010-01-26T05:47:06.000Z", "title": "Solid on Solid Model for Surface Growth in 2+1 Dimensions", "authors": [ "S. Hosseinabadi", "A. A. Masoudi", "M. Sadegh Movahed" ], "comment": "13 pages, 7 figures and 1 table, Accepted for publication in Physica B: Condensed Matter", "journal": "Physica B: Condensed Matter, Volume 405, Issue 8, Pages 2072-2077 (2010)", "doi": "10.1016/j.physb.2010.01.105", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech", "cond-mat.other" ], "abstract": "We analyze in detail the Solid-On-Solid model (SOS) for growth processes on a square substrate in 2+1 dimensions. By using the Markovian surface properties, we introduce an alternative approach for determining the roughness exponent of a special type of SOS model-the Restricted-Solid-On-Solid model (RSOS)- in 2+1 dimensions. This model is the SOS model with the additional restriction that the height difference must be S=1. Our numerical results show that the behaviour of the SOS model in 2+1 dimensions for approximately $S\\geq S_{\\times}\\sim 8$ belongs to the two different universality classes: during the initial time stage, $t< t_{\\times}$ it belongs to the Random-Deposition (RD) class, while for $t_{\\times}