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We provide a detailed description of our previously proposed scheme for topological interface engineering with constructed defects and textures perforating across coherent interfaces between different broken symmetries [M. O. Borgh and J.…

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We present an introduction to modern theories of interfacial fluctuations and the associated interfacial parameters: surface tension and surface stiffness, as well as their interpretation within the capillary wave model. Transfer matrix…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-13 Vladimir Privman

The propagation and roughening of a liquid-gas interface moving through a disordered medium under the influence of capillary forces is considered. The system is described by a phase-field model with conserved dynamics and spatial disorder…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Dube , M. Rost , K. Elder , M. Alava , S. Majaniemi , T. Ala-Nissila

Self-propelled particles can navigate complex environments, including viscous fluid interfaces with curved geometries. In this work, we study the emergent dynamics of a suspension of self-propelled particles confined to a stationary curved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yuzhu Chen , Vishal P. Patil , David Saintillan

Faceted interfaces are a key feature in self-resembling morphologies of many microstructures generated from solid state phase transformations. Interpretations, predictions and simulations of the faceted morphologies remain a challenge,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 W. -Z. Zhang , X. -F. Gu , F. -Z. Dai

We study the dynamics of an exactly solvable lattice model for inhomogeneous interface growth. The interface grows deterministically with constant velocity except along a defect line where the growth process is random. We obtain exact…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Gunter M. Schütz

Conformal field theories can exchange energy through a boundary interface. Imposing conformal boundary conditions for static interfaces implies energy conservation at the interface. Recently, the reflective and transmitive properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-23 Parthajit Biswas , Suchetan Das , Anirban Dinda

Zonal jets manifest themselves as bands with sharp interfaces in the vorticity configuration. We develop an algorithm to track these fluctuating vorticity interfaces and systematically investigate their characteristic spatio-temporal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-01 Sandip Sahoo , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

The dynamical critical behavior of a single directed line driven in a random medium near the depinning threshold is studied both analytically (by renormalization group) and numerically, in the context of a Flux Line in a Type-II…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Deniz Ertas , Mehran Kardar

We determined the interface state density ($D_{\rm it}$) distributions in the vicinity of the conduction band edge in silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structures by reproducing the experimental current-voltage…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-07 Koji Ito , Takuma Kobayashi , Tsunenobu Kimoto

We study the coupling between the structural dynamics and rheological response of charged colloidal monolayers at water/oil interfaces, driven into steady shear by a microdisk rotating at a controlled angular velocity. The flow causes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-14 Ivo Buttinoni , Zachary A. Zell , Todd M. Squires , Lucio Isa

In this article, we propose the realization of conformal manifolds, which are smooth manifolds of scale-conformal invariant interacting Hamiltonians in two-dimensional quantum many-body systems. Such phenomena can occur in various…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-23 Saran Vijayan , Fei Zhou

We present a new method based on the scattering technique to investigate fluctuation-induced forces at a fluid interface. The scattering approach, well suited to the study of many body systems of arbitrary geometries, is augmented to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-27 E. Noruzifar , J. Wagner , R. Zandi

The influence of the external pressure and surface energy on the wetting transition at nanotextured interfaces is studied using molecular dynamics and continuum simulations. The surface roughness of the composite interface is introduced via…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-12 Bishal Bhattarai , Nikolai V. Priezjev

The interface of a cholesteric liquid crystal with an isotropic fluid can display a range of unusual properties, such as a layer of topological defects close to an undulated interface. These properties have been know for a long time and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-02 N. R. Bernardino , M. C. F. Pereira , N. M. Silvestre , M. M. Telo da Gama

The static and dynamic properties of a Cosserat-type lattice interface of finite thickness are studied, so that both displacements and rotational degrees of freedom are taken into account. The model allows considering interfaces with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-02 Aleksey A. Vasiliev , Andrey E. Miroshnichenko , Massimo Ruzzene

A coarse grained description of a two phase fluid is used to study the steady state configuration of the interface separating the coexisting phases, and the motion of the contact line at which the interface intersects a solid boundary. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hsuan-Yi Chen , David Jasnow , Jorge Vinals

We provide a comprehensive report on scale-invariant fluctuations of growing interfaces in liquid-crystal turbulence, for which we recently found evidence that they belong to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class for 1+1…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-25 Kazumasa A. Takeuchi , Masaki Sano

Moir\'e superstructures arising at twisted 2D interfaces have recently attracted the attention of the scientific community due to exotic quantum states and unique mechanical and tribological behaviors that they exhibit. Here, we predict the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Andrea Silva , Xiang Gao , Melisa M. Gianetti , Roberto Guerra , Nicola Manini , Andrea Vanossi , Michael Urbakh , Oded Hod

The dynamic interaction of complex fluid interfaces is highly sensitive to near-contact interactions occurring at the scale of ten of nanometers. Such interactions are difficult to analyse because they couple self-consistently to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-14 A. Tiribocchi , A. Montessori , S. Miliani , M. Lauricella , M. La Rocca , S. Succi