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We prove convergence of the nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation to mean curvature flow in the sharp interface limit, in the situation when the parameter corresponding to the kernel goes to zero fast enough with respect to the diffuse interface…

We study the asymptotics of Allen-Cahn-type bistable reaction-diffusion equations which are additively perturbed by a stochastic forcing (time white noise). The conclusion is that the long time, large space behavior of the solutions is…

This paper addresses the approximation of the mean curvature flow of thin structures for which classical phase field methods are not suitable. By thin structures, we mean surfaces that are not domain boundaries, typically higher codimension…

The stochastic Allen-Cahn equation with multiplicative noise involves the nonlinear drift operator ${\mathscr A}(x) = \Delta x - \bigl(\vert x\vert^2 -1\bigr)x$. We use the fact that ${\mathscr A}(x) = -{\mathcal J}^{\prime}(x)$ satisfies a…

We show by a formal asymptotic expansion that level sets of solutions of a time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation evolve by a geometric flow whose normal velocity is a positive power of the mean curvature. This connection is quite intriguing,…

We consider an Allen-Cahn equation with nonlinear diffusion, motivated by the study of the scaling limit of certain interacting particle systems. We investigate its singular limit and show the generation and propagation of an interface in…

We study the mean curvature flow with given non-smooth transport term and forcing term, in suitable Sobolev spaces. We prove the global existence of the weak solutions for the mean curvature flow with the terms, by using the modified…

We give a short and self-contained proof for rates of convergence of the Allen-Cahn equation towards mean curvature flow, assuming that a classical (smooth) solution to the latter exists and starting from well-prepared initial data. Our…

The purpose of this paper is to derive anisotropic mean curvature flow as the limit of the anisotropic Allen-Cahn equation. We rely on distributional solution concepts for both the diffuse and sharp interface models, and prove convergence…

We prove strong rate resp. weak rate ${\mathcal O}(\tau)$ for a structure preserving temporal discretization (with $\tau$ the step size) of the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation with additive resp. multiplicative colored noise in $d=1,2,3$…

We consider a variational model for heterogeneous phase separation, based on a diffuse interface energy with moving wells. Our main result identifies the asymptotic behavior of the first variation of the phase field energies as the width of…

This paper is concerned with the motion of a time dependent hypersurface that evolves by mean curvature flow with a a volume constraint. Phase field approximation of this motion leads to the well known nonlocal Allen--Cahn equation. Here we…

In this article, we develop and analyze a full discretization, based on the spatial spectral Galerkin method and the temporal drift implicit Euler scheme, for the stochastic Cahn--Hilliard equation driven by multiplicative space-time white…

We introduce a class of stochastic Allen-Cahn equations with a mobility coefficient and colored noise. For initial data with finite free energy, we analyze the corresponding Cauchy problem on the $d$-dimensional torus in the time interval…

The scientific literature contains a number of numerical approximation results for stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with superlinearly growing nonlinearities but, to the best of our knowledge, none of them prove strong or…

This paper studies the convergence of a spatial semidiscretization of a three-dimensional stochastic Allen-Cahn equation with multiplicative noise. For non-smooth initial data, the regularity of the mild solution is investigated, and an…

Phase-field models such as the Allen-Cahn equation may give rise to the formation and evolution of geometric shapes, a phenomenon that may be analyzed rigorously in suitable scaling regimes. In its sharp-interface limit, the vectorial…

We study the sharp interface limit of the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with cubic double-well potential and additive space-time white noise $\epsilon^{\sigma}\dot{W}$ where $\epsilon>0$ is an interfacial width parameter. We prove that,…

We study the invariant measure of a discretized stochastic Allen-Cahn equation in d+1 dimensions in the low noise limit. We consider a cuboidal domain and impose the two stable phases as boundary conditions at two opposite faces. We then…

White noise-driven nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) of parabolic type are frequently used to model physical and biological systems in space dimensions d = 1,2,3. Whereas existence and uniqueness of weak solutions…