Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1745–1748 (1990)Roughening transition and percolation in random ballistic depositionReceived 2 January 1990; published in the issue dated 9 April 1990 A simple ballistic model for surface growth, which considers a mixture of ‘‘sticky’’ and ‘‘sliding’’ particles, is introduced and numerically investigated in dimensions d=2, 3, and 4. The model exhibits, in d=3 and 4 (but not in d=2), a roughening phase transition, of the type recently predicted by Halpin-Healy. For the first time it is shown that such kind of surface transition is accompanied by a transition in the bulk which is characterized by a singularity in the compacity-versus-concentration curve and which occurs at the threshold of a (d-1)-percolation transition. © 1990 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.1745
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.1745
PACS:
68.70.+w, 05.40.+j
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