Absence of non-trivial asymptotic scaling in the Kashchiev model of polynuclear growth
Absence of non-trivial asymptotic scaling in the Kashchiev model of polynuclear growth
In this brief comment we show that, contrary to previous claims [Bartelt M C and Evans J W 1993 {\it J.\ Phys.\ A} ${\bf 26}$ 2743], 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.