Evolution of terrace-width distributions on vicinal surfaces: Fokker-Planck derivation of the generalized Wigner surmise

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 24, 2005, Pages

  Pimpinelli, Alberto ^a,b   Gebremariam, Hailu ^a   Einstein, T L ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; PERFECT CLEAVED CRYSTALS; TERRACE-WIDTH DISTRIBUTION;

CRYSTALS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FERMIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; QUENCHING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 28844441578     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.246101     Document Type: Article

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