English
Related papers

Related papers: Ballistic and sub-ballistic motion of interfaces i…

200 papers

We consider a tracer particle performing a random walk on a two-dimensional lattice in the presence of immobile hard obstacles. Starting from equilibrium, a constant force pulling on the particle is switched on, driving the system to a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-05 Dan Shafir , Alessio Squarcini , Stanislav Burov , Thomas Franosch

We consider a model for the evolution of an interface in a heterogeneous environment governed by a parabolic equation. The heterogeneity is introduced as obstacles exerting a localized dry friction. Our main result establishes the emergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Luca Courte , Patrick Dondl , Ulisse Stefanelli

From a simple model for the driven motion of a planar interface under the influence of a diffusion field we derive a damped nonlinear oscillator equation for the interface position. Inside an unstable regime, where the damping term is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alexander L. Korzhenevskii , Richard Bausch , Rudi Schmitz

We develop a mechanism for the controlled conversion of ballistic to diffusive motion and vice versa. This process takes place at the interfaces of domains with different time-dependent forces in lattices of laterally oscillating barrier…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Christoph Petri , Florian Lenz , Benno Liebchen , Fotis K. Diakonos , Peter Schmelcher

We show that a signal can propagate in a particular direction through a model random medium regardless of the precise state of the medium. As a prototype, we consider a point particle moving on a one-dimensional lattice whose sites are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Patrick Grosfils , Jean Pierre Boon , E. G. D. Cohen , L. A. Bunimovich

We study the interfaces' time evolution in one-dimensional bistable extended dynamical systems with discrete time. The dynamics is governed by the competition between a local piece-wise affine bistable mapping and any couplings given by the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Coutinho , B. Fernandez

We address the hydrodynamics of operator spreading in interacting integrable lattice models. In these models, operators spread through the ballistic propagation of quasiparticles, with an operator front whose velocity is locally set by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , David A. Huse , Vedika Khemani , Romain Vasseur

We consider a lattice gas interacting by the exclusion rule in the presence of a random field given by i.i.d. bounded random variables in a bounded domain in contact with particles reservoir at different densities. We show, in dimensions $d…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Mustapha Mourragui , Enza Orlandi

We prove a hydrodynamic limit for ballistic deposition on a multidimensional lattice. In this growth model particles rain down at random and stick to the growing cluster at the first point of contact. The theorem is that if the initial…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Timo Seppalainen

Natural phenomena frequently involve a very large number of interacting molecules moving in confined regions of space. Cellular transport by motor proteins is an example of such collective behavior. We derive a deterministic compartmental…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-01 Yoram Zarai , Michael Margaliot , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

We propose a lattice model to study the dynamics of a driven interface in a medium with random pinning forces. For driving forces F smaller than a threshold force F_c the whole interface gets pinned. The depinning transition can be…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Heiko Leschhorn

We study the microscopic structure and the stationary propagation velocity of (1+1)-dimensional solid-on-solid interfaces in an Ising lattice-gas model, which are driven far from equilibrium by an applied force, such as a magnetic field or…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. Buendia , P. A. Rikvold , M. Kolesik

We study the pinning phase transition for discrete surface dynamics in random environments. A renormalization procedure is devised to prove that the interface moves with positive velocity under a finite size condition. This condition is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Thierry Bodineau , Augusto Teixeira

We study the dynamics of an exactly solvable lattice model for inhomogeneous interface growth. The interface grows deterministically with constant velocity except along a defect line where the growth process is random. We obtain exact…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Gunter M. Schütz

We consider asymptotic problems concerning the motion of interface separating the regions of large and small values of the solution of a reaction-diffusion equation in the media consisting of domains with different characteristics…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Mark Freidlin , Leonid Koralov

We study the mean-field version of a model proposed by Leschhorn to describe the depinning transition of interfaces in random media. We show that evolution equations for the distribution of forces felt by the interface sites can be written…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Vannimenus , B. Derrida

The problem of the lattice diffusion of two particles coupled by a contact repulsive interaction is solved by finding analytical expressions of the two-body probability characteristic function. The interaction induces anomalous drift with a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Claude Aslangul

Dynamic Mode III interfacial fracture in a dissimilar square-cell lattice, composed of two contrasting mass-spring lattice half-planes joined at an interface, is considered. The fracture, driven by a remotely applied load, is assumed to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 A. Piccolroaz , N. Gorbushin , G. S. Mishuris , M. J. Nieves

In this paper, a thermal-dynamical consistent model for mass transfer across permeable moving interfaces is proposed by using the energy variation method. We consider a restricted diffusion problem where the flux across the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Yuzhe Qin , Huaxiong Huang , Yi Zhu , Chun Liu , Shixin Xu

This paper is concerned with the interaction between a planar traveling front and a compact obstacle for monotone bistable reaction-diffusion systems in exterior domains. By constructing appropriate sub- and supersolutions, we first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Yang-Yang Yan , Wei-Jie Sheng