Generalized survival in step fluctuations

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Tao, C G ^a   Cullen, W G ^a   Williams, E D ^a   Dasgupta, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MATERIAL-DEPENDENT MEAN-SQUARED WIDTH; STEP FLUCTUATIONS; TIME CONSTANT;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 34547941593     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.021601     Document Type: Article

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