Stages of Relaxation of Patterns and the Role of Stochasticity on the Final Stage

S. Hu, D. I. Goldman, D. J. Kouri +3

The disorder function formalism [Gunaratne et.al., Phys. Rev. E, {\bf 57}, 5146 (1998)]^M is used to show that pattern relaxation in an experiment on a vibrated layer of brass bead…