Spatial survival probability for one-dimensional fluctuating interfaces in the steady state

Majumdar, Satya N. ; Dasgupta, Chandan (2006) Spatial survival probability for one-dimensional fluctuating interfaces in the steady state Physical Review E, 73 (1). 011602_1-011602_15. ISSN 1063-651X

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Official URL: http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v73/i1/e011602

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.73.011602

Abstract

We report numerical and analytic results for the spatial survival probability for fluctuating one-dimensional interfaces with Edwards-Wilkinson or Kardar-Parisi-Zhang dynamics in the steady state. Our numerical results are obtained from analysis of steady-state profiles generated by integrating a spatially discretized form of the Edwards-Wilkinson equation to long times. We show that the survival probability exhibits scaling behavior in its dependence on the system size and the "sampling interval" used in the measurement for both "steady-state" and "finite" initial conditions. Analytic results for the scaling functions are obtained from a path-integral treatment of a formulation of the problem in terms of one-dimensional Brownian motion. A "deterministic approximation" is used to obtain closed-form expressions for survival probabilities from the formally exact analytic treatment. The resulting approximate analytic results provide a fairly good description of the numerical data.

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