{"id":235004,"date":"2026-04-11T02:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/universal-surface-growth-law-confirmed-in-two-dimensions-after-40-years"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:19:11","slug":"universal-surface-growth-law-confirmed-in-two-dimensions-after-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/universal-surface-growth-law-confirmed-in-two-dimensions-after-40-years","title":{"rendered":"Universal surface-growth law confirmed in two dimensions after 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universal-surface-growth-law-confirmed-in-two-dimensions-after-40-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the Kardar\u2013Parisi\u2013Zhang equation. Since then, it has been regarded as a fundamental model in physics, with implications for mathematics, biology, and computer science.<\/p>\n<p>Now\u201440 years later\u2014a W\u00fcrzburg-based research team from the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat has achieved the first experimental demonstration of KPZ behavior on 2D surfaces in space and time.<\/p>\n<p>This was made possible by sophisticated materials engineering and a bold experimental approach: researchers injected polaritons\u2014hybrid particles composed of light and matter\u2014into the material. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aeb4154\" target=\"_blank\">The results<\/a> have been published in Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the Kardar\u2013Parisi\u2013Zhang equation. Since then, it has been regarded as a fundamental model in physics, with implications for mathematics, biology, and computer science. Now\u201440 years later\u2014a W\u00fcrzburg-based research team from the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat has achieved the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,38,41,2229,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-engineering","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}