The accuracy of roughness exponent measurement methods

Details The accuracy of roughness exponent measurement methods The accuracy of roughness exponent measurement methods

2007-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/0707.1750v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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We test methods for measuring and characterizing rough profiles with emphasis on measurements of the self-affine roughness exponent, and describes a simple test to separate between roughness exponents originating from long range correlations in the sign signs of the profile, and roughness exponents originating from L{\'e}vy distributions of jumps. Based on tests on profiles with known roughness exponents we find that the power spectrum density analysis and the averaged wavelet coefficients method give the best estimates for roughness exponents in the range 0.1 to 0.9. The error-bars are found to be less than 0.03 for profile lengths larger than 256, and there are no systematic bias in the estimates. We present quantitative estimates of the error-bars and the systematic error and their dependence on the value of the roughness exponent and the profile length. We also quantify how power-law noise can modify the measured roughness exponent for measurement methods different from the power spectrum density analysis and the second order correlation function method.

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