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Clusters formed by fluctuations of two-dimensional (2D) directed interfaces around a threshold level have been extensively studied at equilibrium and in nonequilibrium steady states, but their coarsening dynamics remain poorly understood.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 Renan A. L. Almeida , Tiago J. Oliveira , Jeferson J. Arenzon , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

In this study, we investigate the relationship between the one-dimensional (1D) Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation and the stochastic Loewner equation (SLE), which is a one parameter family of the conformal mappings involving stochasticity.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Yusuke Kosaka Shibasaki

Understanding possible universal properties for systems far from equilibrium is much less developed than for their equilibrium counterparts and poses a major challenge to present day statistical physics. The study of aging properties, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-22 Jacopo De Nardis , Pierre Le Doussal , Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

We investigate solid-on-solid models that belong to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class on substrates that expand laterally at a constant rate by duplication of columns. Despite the null global curvature, we show that all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-23 I. S. S. Carrasco , K. A. Takeuchi , S. C. Ferreira , T. J. Oliveira

The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation has been connected to a large number of important stochastic processes in physics, chemistry and growth phenomena, ranging from classical to quantum physics. The central quest in this field is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-01 Márcio S. Gomes-Filho , André L. A. Penna , Fernando A. Oliveira

We study height fluctuations of interfaces in the $(1+1)$-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) class, growing at different speeds in the left half and the right half of space. Carrying out simulations of the discrete polynuclear growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-18 Yasufumi Ito , Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

While equilibrium interfaces display universal large-scale statistics, interfaces in phase-separated active and driven systems are predicted to belong to distinct non-equilibrium universality classes. Yet, such behavior has proven difficult…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-08 Raphaël Maire , Andrea Plati , Frank Smallenburg , Giuseppe Foffi

We investigate the infinite-dimensional limit of nonequilibrium surface growth by numerically integrating stochastic growth equations on a fully connected graph. In particular, we study the Edwards-Wilkinson (EW), Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-04 J. M. Marcos , J. J. Meléndez , R. Cuerno , J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

We investigate the behavior of discrete interface growth models belonging to the Edwards--Wilkinson (EW) and Kardar--Parisi--Zhang (KPZ) universality classes, when defined on a complete graph, a topology commonly used to probe the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 J. M. Marcos , J. J. Meléndez , R. Cuerno , J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation for surface growth has been analyzed for over three decades. Some experiments indicated the power law for the interface width, $w(t)\sim t^\beta$, remains the same as in growth on planar surfaces.…

In a recent work [Phys. Rev. E 109, L042102 (2024)], interesting dimensional crossovers [from two- to one-dimensional (2D to 1D) scaling] were found in the growth of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) interfaces on rectangular substrates, with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-08 Ismael S. S. Carrasco , Tiago J. Oliveira

The short time behavior of the 1+1 dimensional KPZ growth equation with a flat initial condition is obtained from the exact expressions of the moments of the partition function of a directed polymer with one endpoint free and the other…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-13 Thomas Gueudre , Pierre Le Doussal , Alberto Rosso , Adrien Henry , Pasquale Calabrese

Simulations of restricted solid-on-solid growth models are used to build the width-distributions of d=2-5 dimensional KPZ interfaces. We find that the universal scaling function associated with the steady-state width-distribution changes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Marinari , A. Pagnani , G. Parisi , Z. Racz

In this contribution we consider stochastic growth models in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class in 1+1 dimension. We discuss the large time distribution and processes and their dependence on the class on initial condition. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-01 Patrik L. Ferrari

We define a stochastic lattice model for a fluctuating directed polymer in $d\geq 2$ dimensions. This model can be alternatively interpreted as a fluctuating random path in 2 dimensions, or a one-dimensional asymmetric simple exclusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-20 G. M. Schütz , B. Wehefritz-Kaufmann

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

Stochastic growth phenomena on curved interfaces are studied by means of stochastic partial differential equations. These are derived as counterparts of linear planar equations on a curved geometry after a reparametrization invariance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Carlos Escudero

We have studied front dynamics for the discrete $A+A \leftrightarrow A$ reaction-diffusion system, which in the continuum is described by the (stochastic) Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscunov equation. We have revisited this discrete model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-30 B. G. Barreales , J. J. Melendez , R. Cuerno , J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

We present a simple one dimensional stochastic model with three control parameters and a surprisingly rich zoo of phase transitions. At each (discrete) site $x$ and time $t$, an integer $n(x,t)$ satisfies a linear interface equation with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-21 Peter Grassberger , Deepak Dhar , P. K. Mohanty

These notes are based on a talk given at the 2018 Arizona School of Analysis and Mathematical Physics. We give a comprehensive introduction to the KPZ universality class, a conjectured class of stochastic process with local interactions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Axel Saenz