1. Experimental determination of KPZ height-fluctuation distributions.
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Miettinen, L., Myllys, M., Merikoski, J., and Timonen, J.
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FLUCTUATIONS (Physics) , *STOCHASTIC processes , *WIENER processes , *CRITICAL phenomena (Physics) , *NOISE - Abstract
Height-fluctuation distributions of nonequilibrium interfaces were analyzed using slow-combustion fronts propagating in sheets of paper. All distributions measured were definitely non-Gaussian. The experimental distributions for transient and stationary regimes were well fitted by the theoretical distributions proposed by Prähofer and Spohn in reference [9]. Consistent with the Galilean invariance of the system, the same distributions were found for horizontal fronts and, when determined along the normal to the slope, for fronts with a non-zero average slope. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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