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We consider an infinite bi-material plane containing a semi-infinite crack situated on a soft imperfect interface. The crack is loaded by a general asymmetrical system of forces distributed along the crack faces. On the basis of the weight…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-25 G. Mishuris , A. Piccolroaz , A. Vellender

The dynamical relaxation and scaling properties of three different variants of the contact process in two spatial dimensions are analysed. Dynamical contact processes capture a variety of contagious processes such as the spreading of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-01 Lucas Böttcher , Hans Jürgen Herrmann , Malte Henkel

We study the crossover scaling behavior of the height-height correlation function in interface depinning in random media. We analyze experimental data from a fracture experiment and simulate an elastic line model with non-linear couplings…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 Y. J. Chen , Stefano Zapperi , James P. Sethna

We have developed different network approaches to analyze complex patterns of frictional interfaces (contact area developments). Network theory is a fundamental tool for the modern understanding of complex systems in which, by a simple…

General Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 H. O. Ghaffari , R. P. Young

We use conformal maps to study a free boundary problem for a two-fluid electromechanical system, where the interface between the fluids is determined by the combined effects of electrostatic forces, gravity and surface tension. The free…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Stuart Kent , Shankar C. Venkataramani

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 large part, the future utility of modern numerical conformal bootstrap depends on its ability to accurately predict the existence of hitherto unknown non-trivial conformal field theories (CFTs). Here we investigate the extent to which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Matthew T. Dowens , Chris A. Hooley

Conformal field theory (CFT) has been extremely successful in describing large-scale universal effects in one-dimensional (1D) systems at quantum critical points. Unfortunately, its applicability in condensed matter physics has been limited…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-15 Jérôme Dubail , Jean-Marie Stéphan , Jacopo Viti , Pasquale Calabrese

Starting from the total energy expressions within density functional theory, we are able to perform a comparison of several currently used charged-defect finite-size supercell correction schemes in a unified manner. This approach also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-09 Hannu-Pekka Komsa , Tapio T. Rantala

The well-established universality classes of absorbing critical phenomena are directed percolation (DP) and directed Ising (DI) classes. Recently, the pair contact process with diffusion (PCPD) has been investigated extensively and claimed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jae Dong Noh , Hyunggyu Park

There is a renewed interest in conformal field theories (CFT) on ultrametric spaces (p-adic field and its algebraic extensions) in view of their natural adaptability in the holographic setting. We compute the contributions from the exchange…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Parikshit Dutta , Debashis Ghoshal , Arindam Lala

A defect-deferred correction method, increasing both temporal and spatial accuracy, for fluid-fluid interaction problem with nonlinear interface condition is considered by geometric averaging of the previous two-time levels. In the defect…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Mustafa Aggul , Songül Kaya

Recent research developments in the area of spacetime metamaterial structures and systems have raised new questions as to how the physics of fundamental phenomena is altered in the presence of spacetime modulation. In this context, we…

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

We reveal intrinsic fracture nonreciprocity, manifesting as directional asymmetry in crack resistance, in two-dimensional heterostructures engineered through lattice-mismatched interfaces. Density-functional theory combined with…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-10 Siwei Zhao , Penghua Ying , Guoqiang Zhang , Ke Zhou , Shengying Yue , Yan Chen , Yilun Liu

The design of contact interfaces that meet quantitatively a specified friction law (friction force vs normal force) is challenging due to the multi-scale and multi-physics nature of contact interactions. Recently, a concept was proposed to…

Conformal field theory finds applications across diverse fields, from statistical systems at criticality to quantum gravity through the AdS/CFT correspondence. These theories are subject to strong constraints, enabling a systematic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-22 Julien Barrat

We introduce a strong-disorder renormalization group (RG) approach suitable for investigating the quasiparticle excitations of disordered superconductors in which the quasiparticle spin is not conserved. We analyze one-dimensional models…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Olexei Motrunich , Kedar Damle , David A. Huse

We study line defects with a cusp in fermionic CFTs arising as fixed points of scalar-fermion theories with Yukawa interactions. These include the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model and some of its generalizations with additional scalar fields, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Simone Giombi , Anurag Pendse

We introduce and study renormalization group interfaces between two holographic conformal theories which are related by deformation by a scalar double trace operator. At leading order in the 1/N expansion, we derive expressions for the two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Charles Melby-Thompson , Cornelius Schmidt-Colinet