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Absence of non-trivial asymptotic scaling in the Kashchiev model of polynuclear growth

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, , Citation T J Newman and A Volmer 1996 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 29 2285 DOI 10.1088/0305-4470/29/9/038

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1 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, D-50937 Köln, Germany

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  1. Received 27 June 1995

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In this brief comment we show that, contrary to previous claims (Bartelt and Evans), the asymptotic behaviour of the Kashchiev model of polynuclear growth is trivial in all spatial dimensions, and therefore lies outside the Kardar - Parisi - Zhang universality class.

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