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Main Authors: Chhimpa, Rahul, Yadav, Avinash Chand
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18515
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author Chhimpa, Rahul
Yadav, Avinash Chand
author_facet Chhimpa, Rahul
Yadav, Avinash Chand
contents In discrete models describing growing rough interfaces of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, we examine height fluctuations at a fixed site as a function of time in the monolayer unit. For small systems, we show that it is possible to reach the stationary state. We compute the two-time autocorrelation and power spectra independently. The correlation function remains non-exponential and vanishes after a correlation time that diverges with system size. As a result, the power spectra display a lower cutoff that maintains constant power. In the nontrivial frequency regime, we observe $1/f^α$-type scaling with the spectral exponent 5/3. Finite-size scaling reveals that the temporal correlation function follows a dynamic scaling. Our findings, supported by scaling-theoretical arguments, establish that the fluctuations are wide-sense stationary, implying applicability of the Wiener-Khinchin theorem.
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spellingShingle Stationary $1/f^α$ noise in discrete models of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang class
Chhimpa, Rahul
Yadav, Avinash Chand
Statistical Mechanics
In discrete models describing growing rough interfaces of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, we examine height fluctuations at a fixed site as a function of time in the monolayer unit. For small systems, we show that it is possible to reach the stationary state. We compute the two-time autocorrelation and power spectra independently. The correlation function remains non-exponential and vanishes after a correlation time that diverges with system size. As a result, the power spectra display a lower cutoff that maintains constant power. In the nontrivial frequency regime, we observe $1/f^α$-type scaling with the spectral exponent 5/3. Finite-size scaling reveals that the temporal correlation function follows a dynamic scaling. Our findings, supported by scaling-theoretical arguments, establish that the fluctuations are wide-sense stationary, implying applicability of the Wiener-Khinchin theorem.
title Stationary $1/f^α$ noise in discrete models of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang class
topic Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18515