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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

Motivated by recent experiments of motile bacteria crossing liquid-liquid interfaces of isotropic- nematic coexistence (Cheon et al., Soft Matter 20: 7313-7320, 2024), we study the dynamics of prolate microswimmers traversing clean…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-01 Rishish Mishra , Harish Pothukuchi , Harinadha Gidituri , Juho Lintuvuori

Growth and roughness of the interface of deposited polymer chains driven by a field onto an impenetrable adsorbing surface are studied by computer simulations in (2+1) dimensions. The evolution of the interface width W shows a crossover…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank W. Bentrem , R. B. Pandey , Fereydoon Family

The properties of the interface in a phase-separated solution of polymers with different degrees of polymerization and Kuhn segment lengths are calculated. The starting point is the planar interface, the profile of which is calculated in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-15 R. H. Tromp , E. M. Blokhuis

The relationship between statics and dynamics proposed by Franz, Mezard, Parisi and Peliti (FMPP) for slowly relaxing systems [Phys.Rev.Lett. {\bf 81}, 1758 (1998)] is investigated in the framework of non disordered coarsening systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Federico Corberi , Eugenio Lippiello , Marco Zannetti

An accurate description of the structure and dynamics of interfacial water is essential for phospholipid membranes, since it determines their function and their interaction with other molecules. Here we consider water confined in stacked…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-16 Sotiris Samatas , Carles Calero , Fausto Martelli , Giancarlo Franzese

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

We investigate the interfacial dynamics involved in the impact of a droplet on a liquid-liquid system, which involves the impingement of an immiscible core liquid drop from a vertical separation onto an interfacial shell liquid layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-20 Akash Chowdhury , Sirshendu Misra , Sushanta K. Mitra

We present a theoretical study of wetting phenomena and interactions between liquid-vapor interfaces based on the density functional theory. The focus is mostly on the impact of long-range van der Waals interactions both within the fluid…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Arik Yochelis , Len M. Pismen

The dynamics of an interface in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate driven by a spatially uniform time-dependent force is studied. Starting from the Gross-Pitaevskii Lagrangian, the dispersion relation for linear waves and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Kobyakov , V. Bychkov , E. Lundh , A. Bezett , V. Akkerman , M. Marklund

Critical wetting transitions under nonequilibrium conditions are studied numerically and analytically by means of an interface-displacement model defined by a Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, plus some extra terms representing a limiting,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elvira Romera , Francisco de los Santos , Omar Al Hammal , Miguel A. Munoz

To comprehend the complexities of the ice-water interface, we perform a study that attempts to correlate the altered dynamics of water to its perturbed structure at, and due to, the interface. The deviation from bulk values of structural…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-02 Saumyak Mukherjee , Sayantan Mondal , Biman Bagchi

We examine the linear stability of fluid interfaces subjected to a shear flow. Our main object is to generalize previous work to arbitrary Atwood number, and to allow for surface tension and weak compressibility. The motivation derives from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Alexakis , Y. Young , R. Rosner

We study the features of a radial Stokes flow due to a submerged jet directed toward a liquid-air interface. The presence of surface-active impurities confers to the interface an in-plane elasticity that resists the incident flow. Both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-20 T. Bickel , J. -C. Loudet , G. Koleski , B. Pouligny

The nucleation of gas hydrates is of great interest in flow assurance, global energy demand, and carbon capture and storage. A complex molecular understanding is critical to control hydrate nucleation and growth in the context of potential…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Samuel Mathews , André Guerra , Phillip Servio , Alejandro Rey

We present numerical evidence that there are two distinct universality classes characterizing driven interface roughening in the presence of quenched disorder. The evidence is based on the behavior of $\lambda$, the coefficient of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 LAN Amaral , A-L Barabasi , HE Stanley

Frictional interfaces are abundant in natural and engineering systems, and predicting their behavior still poses challenges of prime scientific and technological importance. At the heart of these challenges lies the inherent coupling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-21 Yohai Bar-Sinai , Michael Aldam , Robert Spatschek , Efim A. Brener , Eran Bouchbinder

The dynamics of phase-separated interfaces shape the behavior of both passive and active condensates. While surface tension in equilibrium systems minimizes interface length, non-equilibrium fluxes can destabilize flat or constantly curved…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 Florian Raßhofer , Simon Bauer , Alexander Ziepke , Ivan Maryshev , Erwin Frey

The effects of a randomly moving environment on a randomly growing interface are studied by the field theoretic renormalization group analysis. The kinetic growth of an interface (kinetic roughening) is described by the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-28 N. V. Antonov , P. I. Kakin , N. M. Lebedev

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