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Elastic interfaces in quenched random media driven by external forces exhibit a continuous depinning phase transition between pinned and moving phases at a critical external force. Recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 175701 (2022)] has shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Tuuli Sillanpää , Sanni Nousiainen , Lasse Laurson

The one-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang dynamic interface growth equation with the traveling-wave Ansatz is analyzed. As a new feature additional analytic terms are added. From the mathematical point of view, these can be considered as…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-16 Imre Ferenc Barna , Gabriella Bognár , Mohammed Guedda , Krisztián Hriczó , László Mátyás

We study transitions from convective to absolute instability near a trivial state in large bounded domains for prototypical model problems in the presence of transport and negative nonlinear feedback. We identify two generic scenarios,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-17 Montie Avery , Cedric Dedina , Aislinn Smith , Arnd Scheel

The present paper is devoted to the study of existence, uniqueness and stability of transition fronts of nonlocal dispersal evolution equations in time heterogeneous media of bistable type under the unbalanced condition. We first study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

We study the stochastic Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation for kinetic roughening where the time-independent (columnar or spatially quenched) Gaussian random noise $f(t,{\bf x})$ is specified by the pair correlation function $\langle f(t,{\bf…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-04 P. I. Kakin , M. A. Reiter , M. M. Tumakova , N. M. Gulitskiy , N. V. Antonov

We study fluctuations of interfaces in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class with curved initial conditions. By simulations of a cluster growth model and experiments of liquid-crystal turbulence, we determine the universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-13 Yohsuke T. Fukai , Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

In disordered systems, our present understanding of the Anderson transition is hampered by the possible presence of interactions between particles. We demonstrate that in boson gases, even weak interactions deeply alter the very nature of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-05-21 Nicolas Cherroret , Benoît Vermersch , Jean Claude Garreau , Dominique Delande

We investigate the role of relaxation mechanisms in the driven response of elastic disordered interfaces in finite dimensions, focusing on the interplay between dimensionality and interaction range. Through extensive numerical simulations,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-14 Giuseppe Petrillo , Eduardo Jagla , Eugenio Lippiello , Alberto Rosso

Surface growth governed by the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation in dimensions higher than two undergoes a roughening transition from smooth to rough phases with increasing the nonlinearity. It is also known that the KPZ equation can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-20 Yu Nakayama , Yusuke Nishida

A wide variety of biological as well as non-biological processes and phenomena involving ion channels, binding, pH, folding/unfolding and effects of chain length are well represented by multiphasic profiles, a series of straight lines…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Per Nissen

The roughening behavior of a one-dimensional interface fluctuating under quenched disorder growth is examined while keeping an anchored boundary. The latter introduces detailed balance conditions which allows for a thorough analysis of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. D. Grynberg

We study the geometrical characteristic of quasi-static fractures in disordered media, using iterated conformal maps to determine the evolution of the fracture pattern. This method allows an efficient and accurate solution of the Lam\'e…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Felipe Barra , H. George E. Hentschel , Anders Levermann , Itamar Procaccia

We study the mass-conserved reaction-diffusion system known as the wave-pinning model, which serves as a minimal framework for describing cell polarity. In this model, the interplay between reaction kinetics and slow diffusion forms a sharp…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Shunsuke Kobayashi , Koya Sakakibara , Taikei Uechi

We study erratically moving spatial structures that are found in a driven interface in a random medium at the depinning threshold. We introduce a bond-disordered variant of the Sneppen model and study the effect of extremal dynamics on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Supriya Krishnamurthy , Mustansir Barma

We consider two disordered lattice models on the square lattice: on the medial lattice the random field Ising model at T=0 and on the direct lattice the random bond Potts model in the large-q limit at its transition point. The interface…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Karsai , J-Ch. Angles d'Auriac , F. Igloi

Frumkin-Derjaguin theory of interfacial phase transitions and in particular the concept of the disjoining pressure of a planar adsorbed film is reviewed and then discussed in terms of statistical mechanical formulations of interfacial phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-11 J R Henderson

In deposition with a poisoning species, we show that the transition to a blocked or pinned phase may be viewed as an absorbing transition in the directed percolation (DP) class. We consider a ballistic-like deposition model with an active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. D. A. Aarão Reis

Nonreciprocal interactions in many-body systems lead to time-dependent states, commonly observed in biological, chemical, and ecological systems. The stability of these states in the thermodynamic limit and the critical behavior of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yael Avni , Michel Fruchart , David Martin , Daniel Seara , Vincenzo Vitelli

A nonlinear Poisson--Boltzmann equation with transmission boundary conditions at the interface between two materials is investigated. The model describes the electrostatic potential generated by a vector of ion concentrations in a periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Klemens Fellner , Victor Kovtunenko

We apply a number of schemes which variationally improve perturbation theory for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in order to extract estimates for the dynamic exponent z. The results for the various schemes show the same broad features,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Blum , A. J. McKane