Coarsening in surface growth models without slope selection

Abstract: We study conserved models of crystal growth in one dimension [

p a r t i a l_{t} z (x, t) = - p a r t i a l_{x} j (x, t)

] which are linearly unstable and develop a mound structure whose typical size L increases in time (

L = t^{n}

). If the local slope (

m = p a r t i a l_{x} z

) increases indefinitely,

n

depends on the exponent

g a m m a

characterizing the large

m

behaviour of the surface current

j

(

j = 1 / | m |^{g} a m m a

):

n = 1 / 4

for

1 < g a m m a < 3

and

n = (1 + g a m m a) / (1 + 5 g a m m a)

for

g a m m a > 3

.

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