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In ballistic deposition (BD), (d+1)-dimensional particles fall sequentially at random towards an initially flat, large but bounded d-dimensional surface, and each particle sticks to the first point of contact. For both lattice and continuum BD, a law of large numbers in the thermodynamic limit establishes convergence of the mean height and surface width (sample standard deviation of the height) of the interface to constants h(t) and w(t), respectively, depending on time t. We show that h(t) is asymptotically linear in t, while (w(t))2 grows at least logarithmically in t when d=1. We use duality results showing that w(t) can be interpreted as the standard deviation of the height for deposition onto a surface growing from a single point.
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Penrose, M.D. Growth and Roughness of the Interface for Ballistic Deposition. J Stat Phys 131, 247–268 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-008-9507-1
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