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We propose a variational framework for accretive surface growth driven by an optimality principle. Rather than prescribing a kinetic law, the configuration at each time step is obtained, within a time-discrete setting, as the solution of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Rohan Abeyaratne , Roberto Paroni , Marco Picchi Scardaoni

There are three fundamental physical processes that gives rise to the morphology of a surface: deposition, surface diffusion and desorption. The characteristics of the interfaces generated by the combination of deposition and surface…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan R. Sanchez

Simple random coverage models, well studied in Euclidean space, can also be defined on a general compact metric space. By analogy with the geometric models, and with the discrete coupon collector's problem and with cover times for finite…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-01 David J. Aldous

Condensational growth of cloud droplets due to supersaturation fluctuations is investigated by solving the hydrodynamic and thermodynamic equations using direct numerical simulations with droplets being modeled as Lagrangian particles. The…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Xiang-Yu Li , Gunilla Svensson , Axel Brandenburg , Nils E. L. Haugen

The uniqueness of a surface density of sources localized inside a spatial region $R$ and producing a given electric potential distribution in its boundary $B_0$ is revisited. The situation in which $R$ is filled with various metallic…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Alejandro Cabo , Carlos Handy , Daniel Bessis

We derive sharp upper and lower bounds for the pointwise concentration function of the maximum statistic of $d$ identically distributed real-valued random variables. Our first main result places no restrictions either on the common marginal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Matias D. Cattaneo , Ricardo P. Masini , William G. Underwood

We study the local and global roughness scaling in growth models with grains at the film surfaces. The local roughness, measured as a function of window size r, shows a crossover at a characteristic length r_c, from a rapid increase with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. J. Oliveira , F. D. A. Aarao Reis

We study models of spatial growth processes where initially there are sources of growth (indicated by the colour green) and sources of a growth-stopping (paralyzing) substance (indicated by red). The green sources expand and may merge with…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-17 J. van den Berg , Y. Peres , V. Sidoravicius , M. E. Vares

A simple, discrete, parametric model is proposed to describe conditional (correlated) deposition of particles on a surface and formation of a connecting (percolating) cluster. The surface changes spontaneously its properties (phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ana Proykova , Boris Karadjov

Grain boundary roughness can affect electronic and mechanical properties of two-dimensional materials. This roughness depends crucially on the growth process by which the two-dimensional material is formed. To investigate the key mechanisms…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Fabio D. A. Aarão Reis , Bastien Marguet , Olivier Pierre-Louis

Growth occurs in a wide range of systems ranging from biological tissue to additive manufacturing. This work considers surface growth, in which mass is added to the boundary of a continuum body from the ambient medium or from within the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Kiana Naghibzadeh , Noel Walkington , Kaushik Dayal

The ability to cope with out-of-distribution (OOD) corruptions and adversarial attacks is crucial in real-world safety-demanding applications. In this study, we develop a general mechanism to increase neural network robustness based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Meir Yossef Levi , Guy Gilboa

We study the convergence of the predictive surface of regression trees and forests. To support our analysis we introduce a notion of adaptive concentration for regression trees. This approach breaks tree training into a model selection…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Stefan Wager , Guenther Walther

A one-dimensional cellular automaton with a probabilistic evolution rule can generate stochastic surface growth in $(1 + 1)$ dimensions. Two such discrete models of surface growth are constructed from a probabilistic cellular automaton…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Pratip Bhattacharyya

We discuss the behavior of a crystalline surface with a disordered substrate. We focus on the possible existence of a {\em super-rough} glassy phase, with height-height correlation functions which vary as the square logarithm of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Enzo Marinari , Remi Monasson , Juan J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

Using renormalized field theory, we examine the dynamics of a growing surface, driven by an obliquely incident particle beam. Its projection on the reference (substrate) plane selects a ``parallel'' direction, so that the evolution equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Schmittmann , Gunnar Pruessner , H. K. Janssen

We study the interplay between surface roughening and phase separation during the growth of binary films. Renormalization group calculations are performed on a pair of equations coupling the interface height and order parameter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Barbara Drossel , Mehran Kardar

In many growth processes particles are highly mobile in an active layer at the surface, but are relatively immobile once incorporated in the bulk. We study models in which atoms are allowed to interact, equilibrate, and order on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Mehran Kardar

We develop a theory for distributed branch points and investigate their role in determining the shape and influencing the mechanics of thin hyperbolic objects. We show that branch points are the natural topological defects in hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Toby L. Shearman , Shankar C. Venkataramani

In this paper it is shown that higher order quasiconvex functions suitable in the variational treatment of problems involving second derivatives may be extended to the space of all matrices as classical quasiconvex functions. Precisely, it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Gianni Dal Maso , Irene Fonseca , Giovanni Leoni , Massimiliano Morini