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Despite similarities between models exhibiting absorbing phase transitions (APTs) and those showing Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) growth, the relationship between these universal fluctuations has remained elusive. We numerically study…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yohsuke T. Fukai , Keiichi Tamai , Tetsuya Hiraiwa

Stochastic motion of a point -- known as Brownian motion -- has many successful applications in science, thanks to its scale invariance and consequent universal features such as Gaussian fluctuations. In contrast, the stochastic motion of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-11 Kazumasa A. Takeuchi , Masaki Sano , Tomohiro Sasamoto , Herbert Spohn

This Letter reports on how the interfaces in the (1+1)-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) class undergo, in the course of time, a transition from the flat, growing regime to the stationary one. Simulations of the polynuclear growth model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-03 Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

We present a systematic short time expansion for the generating function of the one point height probability distribution for the KPZ equation with droplet initial condition, which goes much beyond previous studies. The expansion is checked…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Alexandre Krajenbrink , Pierre Le Doussal , Sylvain Prolhac

In this article we review the ideas in Tsai (2018) toward proving the one-point, lower-tail large deviation principle for the Kardar--Parisi--Zhang equation.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Li-Cheng Tsai

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 present a detailed study of squared local roughness (SLRDs) and local extremal height distributions (LEHDs), calculated in windows of lateral size $l$, for interfaces in several universality classes, in substrate dimensions $d_s = 1$ and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-29 I. S. S. Carrasco , T. J. Oliveira

The free-energy distribution function of an elastic string in a quenched random potential, P(F), is investigated with the help of the optimal-fluctuation approach. The form of the far-right tail of P(F) is found by constructing the exact…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 I. V. Kolokolov , S. E. Korshunov

We investigate analytically the large dimensional behavior of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) dynamics of surface growth using a recently proposed non-perturbative renormalization for self-affine surface dynamics. Within this framework, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Castellano , A. Gabrielli , M. Marsili , M. A. Munoz , L. Pietronero

A master equation for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation in 2+1 dimensions is developed. In the fully nonlinear regime we derive the finite time scale of the singularity formation in terms of the characteristics of forcing. The exact…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Shahbazi , A. A. Masoudi , M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

We present and analyze a stochastic distributed method (S-NEAR-DGD) that can tolerate inexact computation and inaccurate information exchange to alleviate the problems of costly gradient evaluations and bandwidth-limited communication in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Charikleia Iakovidou , Ermin Wei

We study the solution $h_\varepsilon$ of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation for $d \geq 3$: $$ \frac{\partial}{\partial t} h_{\varepsilon} = \frac12 \Delta h_{\varepsilon} + \bigg[\frac12 |\nabla h_\varepsilon |^2 - C_\varepsilon\bigg]+…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Francis Comets , Clément Cosco , Chiranjib Mukherjee

We consider the weakly asymmetric limit of simple exclusion process with drift to the left, starting from step Bernoulli initial data with $\rho_-<\rho_+$ so that macroscopically one has a rarefaction fan. We study the fluctuations of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-05-27 Ivan Corwin , Jeremy Quastel

We study in this series of articles the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation $$ \partial_t h(t,x)=\nu\Delta h(t,x)+\lambda V(|\nabla h(t,x)|) +\sqrt{D}\, \eta(t,x), \qquad x\in{\mathbb{R}}^d $$ in $d\ge 1$ dimensions. The forcing term $\eta$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Jeremie Unterberger

Sharp large deviation estimates for stochastic differential equations with small noise, based on minimizing the Freidlin-Wentzell action functional under appropriate boundary conditions, can be obtained by integrating certain matrix Riccati…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Timo Schorlepp , Tobias Grafke , Rainer Grauer

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

We introduce the asymmetric extension of the Quantum Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process which is a stochastic model of fermions on a lattice hopping with random amplitudes. In this setting, we analytically show that the time-integrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Tony Jin , Alexandre Krajenbrink , Denis Bernard

The study of transversal fluctuation of the optimal path has been a crucial aspect of the Kadar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. In this paper, we establish a new probability lower bound, with optimal exponential order, for the rare…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Xiao Shen

We present an exact solution for the height distribution of the KPZ equation at any time $t$ in a half space with flat initial condition. This is equivalent to obtaining the free energy distribution of a polymer of length $t$ pinned at a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-24 Guillaume Barraquand , Pierre Le Doussal

We analyze a class of non-simple exclusion processes and the corresponding growth models by generalizing Gaertners Cole-Hopf transformation. We identify the main non-linearity and eliminate it by imposing a gradient type condition. For…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Amir Dembo , Li-Cheng Tsai