Comment on “Upper Critical Dimension of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation”

Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of HelsinkiP.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
and Department of Physics, Brown UniversityProvidence, Rhode Island 02912

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 887 – Published 26 January, 1998

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.887

Abstract

A Comment on the Letter by Michael Lässig and Harald Kinzelbach, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 903 (1997). The authors of the Letter offer a Reply.

Jin Min Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 888 (1998)

Michael Lässig and Harald Kinzelbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 889 (1998)

Michael Lässig and Harald Kinzelbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 903 (1997)

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It should be noted that for $d > 4 + 1$ , the oscillations in $w (t)$ do not die out before saturation in the systems studied here.