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We study the influence of disorder strength on the interface roughening process in a phase-field model with locally conserved dynamics. We consider two cases where the mobility coefficient multiplying the locally conserved current is either…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Laurila , M. Pradas , A. Hernandez-Machado , T. Ala-Nissila

We analyze the depinning transition of a driven interface in the 3d random-field Ising model (RFIM) with quenched disorder by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The interface initially built into the system is perpendicular to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Roters , A. Hucht , S. Lubeck , U. Nowak , K. D. Usadel

Interfaces in three-dimensional many-body systems can exhibit rich phenomena beyond the corresponding bulk properties. In particular, they can fluctuate and give rise to massless low energy degrees of freedom even in the presence of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Atsushi Ueda , Lander Burgelman , Luca Tagliacozzo , Laurens Vanderstraeten

The properties of interfaces are key to understand the physics of matter. However, the study of quantum interface dynamics has remained an outstanding challenge. Here, we use large-scale Tree Tensor Network simulations to identify the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Wladislaw Krinitsin , Niklas Tausendpfund , Matteo Rizzi , Markus Heyl , Markus Schmitt

We study numerically the depinning transition of driven elastic interfaces in a random-periodic medium with localized periodic-correlation peaks in the direction of motion. The analysis of the moving interface geometry reveals the existence…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-10-20 S. Bustingorry , A. B. Kolton , T. Giamarchi

We study the phenomenon of super-roughening found on surfaces growing on disordered substrates. We consider a one-dimensional version of the problem for which the pure, ordered model exhibits a roughening phase transition. Extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Saul Ares , Angel Sanchez , Alan R. Bishop

The theory of disordered elastic systems is one of the most powerful frameworks to assess the physics of multiple systems that span from ferromagnets to migrating biological cells. In this formalism, one assumes that the system can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-28 Nirvana Caballero , Thierry Giamarchi

We introduce a solid-on-solid growth process which evolves by random deposition of dimers, surface diffusion, and evaporation of monomers from the edges of plateaus. It is shown that the model exhibits a robust transition from a smooth to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Haye Hinrichsen

Imbibition phenomena have been widely used experimentally and theoretically to study the kinetic roughening of interfaces. We critically discuss the existing experiments and some associated theoretical approaches on the scaling properties…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Dube , M. Rost , M. Alava

According to recent numerical results from lattice models, the critical exponents of systems with many absorbing states and an order parameter coupled to a non-diffusive conserved field coincide with those of the linear interface depinning…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Mikko Alava , Miguel A. Munoz

We investigate the depinning transition for driven interfaces in the random-field Ising model for various dimensions. We consider the order parameter as a function of the control parameter (driving field) and examine the effect of thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Roters , S. Lubeck , K. D. Usadel

A layered system of charges with logarithmic interaction parallel to the layers and random dipoles in each layer is studied via a variational method and an energy rationale. These methods reproduce the known phase diagram for a single layer…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Baruch Horovitz , Pierre Le Doussal

We study the effects of topological (connectivity) disorder on phase transitions. We identify a broad class of random lattices whose disorder fluctuations decay much faster with increasing length scale than those of generic random systems,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-09-24 Hatem Barghathi , Thomas Vojta

Ground states and domain walls are investigated with exact combinatorial optimization in two-dimensional random field Ising magnets. The ground states break into domains above a length scale that depends exponentially on the random field…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 E. T. Seppala , V. Petaja , M. J. Alava

The competing effect of a periodic pinning potential and random point disorder is studied for arrays of elastic lines or directed polymers. The groundstates are investigated by exact combinatorial optimization. In both two and three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Knetter , G. Schröder , M. J. Alava , H. Rieger

We consider numerically the depinning transition in the random-field Ising model. Our analysis reveals that the three and four dimensional model displays a simple scaling behavior whereas the five dimensional scaling behavior is affected by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Roters , S. Lubeck , K. D. Usadel

We propose a simple, exactly solvable, model of interface growth in a random medium that is a variant of the zero-temperature random-field Ising model on the Cayley tree. This model is shown to have a phase diagram (critical depinning field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Hiroki Ohta , Martin-Luc Rosinberg , Gilles Tarjus

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

We explore a roughening phase transition that occurs in the entanglement dynamics of certain quantum circuits. Viewing entanglement as the free energy of a membrane in a circuit-defined random environment, there is a competition between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Hyunsoo Ha , David A. Huse , Grace M. Sommers

This paper continues a study initiated in [34], on the localization transition of a lattice free field on $\mathbb Z^d$ interacting with a quenched disordered substrate that acts on the interface when its height is close to zero. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Hubert Lacoin