Universal fluctuations in radial growth models belonging to the KPZ universality class

We investigate the radius distributions (RD) of surfaces obtained with large-scale simulations of radial clusters that belong to the KPZ universality class. For all investigated models, the RDs are given by the Tracy-Widom distribution of the Gaussian unitary ensemble, in agreement with the conjecture of the KPZ universality class for curved surfaces. The quantitative agreement was also confirmed by two-point correlation functions asymptotically given by the covariance of the Airy₂ process. Our simulation results fill a lacking gap of the conjecture that had been recently verified analytically and experimentally.