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\chapter*{Notation}

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AFM & atomic force microscope\\
AKPZ & anisotropic KPZ equation\\
$a_0$ & lattice constant\\
$c_q(\ell)$ & q-th order correlation function\\
$d_{\mathrm {E}}$ & embedding dimension\\
$d_f$ & fractal dimension\\
$L$ & system size \\
$\equiv$ & {\em defined} to be equal\\
$\sim$ & {\em asymptotically} equal (in scaling sense)\\
$\approx$ & {\em approximately} equal (in numberical value)
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