Sensitivity of ballistic deposition to pseudorandom number generators

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 5044-5052

  D’Souza, Raissa M ^a   Bar Yam, Yaneer ^b   Kardar, Mehran ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DYNAMICS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BALLISTIC DEPOSITION; DYNAMIC SCALING PHENOMENA; PSEUDORANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; PSEUDORANDOMNESS; STEADY STATE DISTRIBUTION;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0032074217     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.57.5044     Document Type: Article

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