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Step meandering due to a deterministic morphological instability on vicinal surfaces during growth is studied. We investigate nonlinear dynamics of a step model with asymmetric step kinetics, terrace and line diffusion, by means of a…

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The instability and nonlinear evolution of directional ocean waves is investigated numerically by means of simulations of the governing kinetic equation for narrow-band surface waves. Our simulation results reveal the onset of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Bengt Eliasson , Padma K. Shukla

Among superconductor/semiconductor hybrid structures, in-situ aluminum (Al) grown on InGaAs/InAs is widely pursued for the experimental realization of Majorana Zero Mode quasiparticles. This is due to the high carrier mobility, low…

We study, using noise reduction techniques, layer by layer epitaxial growth in limited mobility solid-on-solid nonequilibrium surface growth models, which have been introduced in the context of kinetic surface roughening in ideal molecular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Punyindu Chatraphorn , S. Das Sarma

We study theoretically the spatial evolution of optical beams inside a graded-index fiber exhibiting saturable nonlinearity. Utilizing an approach based on the variational principle, we identify the existence of bistable spatial solitons…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-10 Tiyas Das , Anuj P. Lara , Samudra Roy , Govind P. Agrawal

We have performed Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation work to study the effect of diffusion anisotropy, bonding anisotropy and edge diffusion on island formation at different temperatures during the sub-monolayer film growth in Molecular Beam…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-13 Jagannath Devkota , Shankar P. Shrestha

In a companion paper, we established nonlinear stability with detailed diffusive rates of decay of spectrally stable periodic traveling-wave solutions of reaction diffusion systems under small perturbations consisting of a nonlocalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Mathew Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

We derive a stochastic nonlinear continuum theory to describe the morphological evolution of amorphous surfaces eroded by ion bombardment. Starting from Sigmund's theory of sputter erosion, we calculate the coefficients appearing in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Makeev , Rodolfo Cuerno , Albert-László Barabási

The effect of diffusively correlated spatial fluctuations on the proliferation-extinction transition of autocatalytic agents is investigated numerically. Reactants adaptation to spatio-temporal active regions is shown to lead to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sasi Moalem , Nadav M. Shnerb

We present a detailed systematical theoretical analysis of the post-growth processes occurring in nanofractals grown on surface. For this study we developed a method which accounts for the internal dynamics of particles in a fractal. We…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-05-18 Veronika V. Dick , Ilia A. Solov'yov , Andrey V. Solov'yov

Modeling the spontaneous evolution of morphology in natural systems and its preservation by proportionate growth remains a major scientific challenge. Yet, it is conceivable that if the basic mechanisms of growth and the coupled kinetic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-30 Virginia von Streng , Rami Abi-Akl , Bianca Giovanardi , Tal Cohen

In this work, a study of epitaxial growth was carried out by means of wavelets formalism. We showed the existence of a dynamic scaling form in wavelet discriminated linear MBE equation where diffusion and noise are the dominant effects. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Moktadir

Electromagnetic waves in a system with a space and time dependent boundary experience both diffraction and Doppler-like frequency conversion. In order to analyse such situations, conventional methods call for either the eigenmodes or the…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-14 Daigo Oue , Kun Ding , J. B. Pendry

A limited mobility nonequilibrium solid-on-solid dynamical model for kinetic surface growth is introduced as a simple description for the morphological evolution of a growing interface under random vapor deposition and surface diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , P. Punyindu

The diffusion-controlled growth and microstructural evolution at the interface of aluminide coatings and different substrates such as Ni-base superalloys and steel are reviewed. Quantitative diffusion analysis indicates that the diffusion…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-15 Aloke Paul

The mechanisms of stability or instability in the strained alloy film growth are of intense current interest to both theorists and experimentalists. We consider dislocation-free, coherent, growing alloy films which could exhibit a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhi-Feng Huang , Rashmi C. Desai

Kinetic Monte-Carlo (KMC) simulations are a well-established numerical tool to investigate the time-dependent surface morphology in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) experiments. In parallel, simplified approaches such as limited mobility (LM)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Thomas Martynec , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The motive of this work is to understand the complex spatial characteristics of finite-amplitude elastic wave propagation in periodic structures and leverage the unique opportunities offered by nonlinearity to activate complementary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-06-27 R. Ganesh , Stefano Gonella

The magnetic properties of antiferromagnetic (AFM) EuTe epitaxial layers and short period EuTe/PbTe superlattices (SLs), grown by molecular beam epitaxy on (111) BaF$_2$ substrates, were studied by magnetization and neutron diffraction…

Material band structure is key foundation for various modern technologies, but it was regarded as a space-time invariant feature. Acoustic metamaterials show extraordinary properties for processing elastic waves, but conventional…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Xin Fang , Jihong Wen , Dianlong Yu