Renormalization of stochastic lattice models: Epitaxial surfaces

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

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Haselwandter, Christoph A ^a   Vvedensky, Dimitri D ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; CURVE FITTING; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GERMANIUM; LEAD; MODAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; SURFACE DIFFUSION; SURFACES; TRAJECTORIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); APPLIED (CO); ATOMISTIC MODELLING; ATOMISTIC PROCESSES; COARSE GRAINING; EARLY STAGES; EPITAXIAL BREAKDOWN; EPITAXIAL SURFACES; FIXE D POINTS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; KINETIC MONTE CARLO (KMC) SIMULATIONS; KINETIC ROUGHENING; LATTICE MODELING; MODEL PARAMETERS; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTIONS; NEW MATERIALS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; ORDERED STRUCTURES; RANDOM DEPOSITION (RD); RELAXATION MECHANISMS; RENORMALIZATION; RENORMALIZATION GROUP (RNG); STOCHASTIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TECHNICAL ISSUES; TRANSIENT REGIMES; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D);

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 45849098311     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.061129     Document Type: Article

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