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The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation is conjectured to universally describe the fluctuations of weakly asymmetric interface growth. Here we provide the first intrinsic well-posedness result for the KPZ equation on the real line by showing…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-09 M. Gubinelli , N. Perkowski

The nonequilibrium steady state of the one-dimensional (1D) Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class is studied in-depth by exact solutions, yet no direct experimental evidence of its characteristic statistical properties has been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-14 Takayasu Iwatsuka , Yohsuke T. Fukai , Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

We study directed polymers subject to a quenched random potential in d transversal dimensions. This system is closely related to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation of nonlinear stochastic growth. By a careful analysis of the perturbation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ralf Bundschuh , Michael Lassig

Equilibrium spatio-temporal correlation functions are central to understanding weak nonequilibrium physics. In certain local one-dimensional classical systems with three conservation laws they show universal features. Namely, fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-11 Marko Ljubotina , Marko Znidaric , Tomaz Prosen

The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation in 1+1 dimension dynamically develops sharply connected valley structures within which the height derivative {\it is not} continuous. There are two different regimes before and after creation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. A. Masoudi , F. Shahbazi , J. Davoudi , M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

We consider the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation for a circular interface in two dimensions, unconstrained by the standard small-slopes and no-overhang approximations. Numerical simulations using an adaptive scheme allow us to elucidate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-14 Silvia N. Santalla , Javier Rodriguez-Laguna , Rodolfo Cuerno

Traffic congestion, a daily frustration for millions and a multi-billion dollar drain on economies, has long resisted deep physical understanding. While simple theoretical models of traffic flow have suggested connections to critical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-15 Garyoung Lee , Aryaman Jha , Kurt Wiesenfeld , Jorge Laval

We discuss a numerical scheme to solve the continuum Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in generic spatial dimensions. It is based on a momentum-space discretization of the continuum equation and on a pseudo-spectral approximation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lorenzo Giada , Achille Giacometti , Maurice Rossi

The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation is a celebrated non-linear stochastic dynamical equation yielding non-equilibrium universal scaling. It exhibits notorious non-perturbative aspects. The KPZ fixed point is strong-coupling, all the more…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-11 Léonie Canet

The celebrated Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation describes the kinetic roughening of stochastically growing interfaces. In one dimension, the KPZ equation is exactly solvable and its statistical properties are known to an exquisite degree.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-25 Côme Fontaine , Francesco Vercesi , Marc Brachet , Léonie Canet

We consider the solution of the stochastic heat equation \partial_T \mathcal{Z} = 1/2 \partial_X^2 \mathcal{Z} - \mathcal{Z} \dot{\mathscr{W}} with delta function initial condition \mathcal{Z} (T=0)= \delta_0 whose logarithm, with…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-03-01 Gideon Amir , Ivan Corwin , Jeremy Quastel

We report on an extensive numerical investigation of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation describing non-equilibrium interfaces. Attention is paid to the dependence of the growth exponents on the details of the distribution of the noise. All…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. J. Newman , Michael R. Swift

The continuum Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in one dimension is lattice discretized in such a way that the drift part is divergence free. This allows to determine explicitly the stationary measures. We map the lattice KPZ equation to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tomohiro Sasamoto , Herbert Spohn

This article reviews recent developments in statistical field theory far from equilibrium. It focuses on the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation of stochastic surface growth and its mathematical relatives, namely the stochastic Burgers equation in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Michael Lassig

Integrable spin chains with a continuous non-Abelian symmetry, such as the one-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg model, show superdiffusive transport with little theoretical understanding. Although recent studies reported a surprising…

Exciton-polaritons under driven-dissipative conditions exhibit a condensation transition which belongs to a different universality class than equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensates. By numerically solving the generalized Gross-Pitaevskii…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-06 Davide Squizzato , Léonie Canet , Anna Minguzzi

Although time-dependent random media with short range correlations lead to (possibly biased) normal tracer diffusion, anomalous fluctuations occur away from the most probable direction. This was pointed out recently in 1D lattice random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-19 Pierre Le Doussal , Thimothée Thiery

We study the interface dynamics of a discrete model to quantitatively describe electrochemical deposition experiments. Extensive numerical simulations indicate that the interface dynamics is unstable at early times, but asymptotically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-15 Mario Castro , Rodolfo Cuerno , Angel S\anchez , Francisco Domínguez-Adame

In this work, the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in (1+1) dimensions is studied by means of numerical simulations, focussing on the two-times evolution of an interface in the absence of any disordered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sebastian Bustingorry

We present a variational formulation for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation that leads to a thermodynamic-like potential for the KPZ as well as for other related kinetic equations. For the KPZ case, with the knowledge of such a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Horacio S. Wio