Exact maximal height distribution of fluctuating interfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

  Majumdar, Satya N ^a   Comtet, Alain ^b,c  

^a Lab de Physique Théorique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c INSTITUT HENRI POINCARÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRODES; INTEGRATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VECTORS;

FLUCTUATING INTERFACES; MAXIMAL HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMAL RELATIVE HEIGHT (MRH); SCALING FUNCTIONS;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

EID: 3042834090     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.225501     Document Type: Article

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