Numéro
J. Phys. I France
Volume 1, Numéro 1, January 1991
Page(s) 9 - 12
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jp1:1991112
DOI: 10.1051/jp1:1991112
J. Phys. I France 1 (1991) 9-12

Kinetic roughening by exceptional fluctuations

Joachim Krug

Theoretische Physik, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Theresienstrasse 37, D-8000 München 2, F.R.G.


(Received 26 September 1990, accepted 30 October 1990)

Abstract
Using simple scaling arguments it is shown that a sufficiently slowly decaying power law noise distribution leads to nonuniversal scaling properties for a kinetically roughened interface. Good agreement is found with recent simulations of Zhang (J. Phys. France 51 (1990) 2129).



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