{
  "id": "cond-mat/0204464",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2002-04-22T08:44:09.000Z",
  "updated": "2002-04-22T08:44:09.000Z",
  "title": "Passive Sliders on Growing Surfaces and (anti-)Advection in Burger's Flows",
  "authors": [
    "Barbara Drossel",
    "Mehran Kardar"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages revtex4",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.66.195414",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the fluctuations of particles sliding on a stochastically growing surface. This problem can be mapped to motion of passive scalars in a randomly stirred Burger's flow. Renormalization group studies, simulations, and scaling arguments in one dimension, suggest a rich set of phenomena: If particles slide with the avalanche of growth sites (advection with the fluid), they tend to cluster and follow the surface dynamics. However, for particles sliding against the avalanche (anti-advection), we find slower diffusion dynamics, and density fluctuations with no simple relation to the underlying fluid, possibly with continuously varying exponents.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2002-04-22T08:44:09.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "growing surface",
      "passive sliders",
      "renormalization group studies",
      "slower diffusion dynamics",
      "simple relation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}