@article{ISI:000235008500051, abstract = {We report numerical and analytic results for the spatial survival probability for fluctuating one-dimensional interfaces with Edwards-Wilkinson or Kardar-Parisi-Zhang dynamics in the steady state. Our numerical results are obtained from analysis of steady-state profiles generated by integrating a spatially discretized form of the Edwards-Wilkinson equation to long times. We show that the survival probability exhibits scaling behavior in its dependence on the system size and the ``sampling interval″ used in the measurement for both ``steady-state″ and ``finite″ initial conditions. Analytic results for the scaling functions are obtained from a path-integral treatment of a formulation of the problem in terms of one-dimensional Brownian motion. A ``deterministic approximation″ is used to obtain closed-form expressions for survival probabilities from the formally exact analytic treatment. The resulting approximate analytic results provide a fairly good description of the numerical data.}, article-number = {011602}, author = {Majumdar, SN and Dasgupta, C}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.73.011602}, eissn = {1550-2376}, issn = {1539-3755}, journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW E}, month = {JAN}, number = {1, 1}, orcid-numbers = {Dasgupta, Chandan/0000-0002-0302-1881}, times-cited = {18}, title = {Spatial survival probability for one-dimensional fluctuating interfaces in the steady state}, unique-id = {ISI:000235008500051}, volume = {73}, year = {2006} }