Aging Universality Classes in Surface Growth Models

Extensive dynamical simluations of a 2 dimensional driven dimer lattice gas are presented, which can be mapped to (2+1) dimensional surface growth in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) or Edwards-Wilkinson unversality classes. From this autocorrelation and autoresponse functions have been determined for the KPZ universality class and the underlying lattice gas. Studying the effects of different dimer lattice gas dynamics revealed strong differences in the aging behavior of the stochastic cellular automaton (SCA) and the random sequential update models. We show numerical evidence for nontrivial corrections as well as different universal scaling behaviors.