Exact Result for the Nonlocal Conserved Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation

Eytan Katzav

Published 2001-09-24, updated 2003-05-14Version 2

I analyze the Nonlocal Conserved Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (NCKPZ) equation with spatially correlated noise. This equation is also known as the Nonlocal Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NMBE) equation andv was originally suggested to study the effect of the long-range nature of interactions coupled with spatially correlated noise on the dynamics of a volume conserving surface. I find an exact result for a subfamily of NCKPZ models in one dimension, and thus establish an exact result for MBE processes for the first time. Then, to complete the picture, I construct a Self-Consistent Expansion (SCE) and get results that are consistent with the exact result in one dimension. I conclude by discussing previous results obtained for NCKPZ using dynamic renormalization group approach, and find that this approach does not yield the exact result I obtain. This discussion shows the advantage of the using SCE to deal with non-linear stochastic equations.