Sponsor:
K.B.L. acknowledges the support from the Danish
Natural Science Research Council, and R.C. acknowledges support from Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain. The Center for Polymer Studies is supported by NSF.
Keywords:
[PACS] Dynamic critical phenomena
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[PACS] Phase transitions and critical phenomena
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[PACS] Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion
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[PACS] Atomic, molecular, and ion beam impact and interactions with surfaces
We derive the continuum equation for a discrete model for ion sputtering. We follow an approach based on the master equation, and discuss how it can be truncated to a Fokker-Planck equation and mapped to a discrete Langevin equation. By taking the continuum liWe derive the continuum equation for a discrete model for ion sputtering. We follow an approach based on the master equation, and discuss how it can be truncated to a Fokker-Planck equation and mapped to a discrete Langevin equation. By taking the continuum limit, we arrive at the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation with a stochastic noise term.[+][-]
Description:
4 pages, no figures.-- [1995] PACS nrs.: 64.60.Ht, 68.35.Rh, 05.40.+j, 79.20.Rf.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9608023
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