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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-28 Prachi Bisht , Mustansir Barma

Diffusion in an evolving environment is studied by continuos-time Monte Carlo simulations. Diffusion is modelled by continuos-time random walkers on a lattice, in a dynamic environment provided by bubbles between two one-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Janne Juntunen , Juha Merikoski

We analyze a (1+1)-dimension directed random walk model of a polymer dipped in a medium constituted by two immiscible solvents separated by a flat interface. The polymer chain is heterogeneous in the sense that a single monomer may…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erwin Bolthausen , Giambattista Giacomin

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

We consider last passage percolation (LPP) models with exponentially distributed random variables, which are linked to the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP). The competition interface for LPP was introduced and studied by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Patrik L. Ferrari , Peter Nejjar

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

Constrained competitive optimization involves multiple agents trying to minimize conflicting objectives, subject to constraints. This is a highly expressive modeling language that subsumes most of modern machine learning. In this work we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Florian Schäfer , Anima Anandkumar , Houman Owhadi

We investigate the roughening of shear cracks running along the interface between a thin film and a rigid substrate. We demonstrate that short-range correlated fluctuations of the interface strength lead to self-affine roughening of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Zaiser , P. Moretti , A. Konstantinidis , E. C. Aifantis

We investigate the steady-state organisation of active particles residing on an interface. Particle activity induces interface deformations, while the local shape of the interface guides particle movement. We consider multiple species of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-28 Love Grover , Rajeev Kapri , Abhishek Chaudhuri

We consider a model for the evolution of an interface in a heterogeneous environment governed by a parabolic equation. The heterogeneity is introduced as obstacles exerting a localized dry friction. Our main result establishes the emergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Luca Courte , Patrick Dondl , Ulisse Stefanelli

We studied the curvature-driven roughening of a disk domain pattern with a variable interface window. The relaxation of interface is driven by negative surface tension . When a domain boundary propagates radially at a constant rate, we…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yong-Jun Chen , Yuko Nagamine , Tomohiko Yamaguchi , Kenichi Yoshikawa

Cellular renewing active matter - assemblies of proliferating and apoptotic cells - underlies tissue homeostasis, morphogenesis, and clonal competition. Previous work in one-dimensional periodic systems identified a fitness advantage…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-02 Patrick Zimmer , Philip Bittihn , Yoav G. Pollack

We consider a diffusion process with coefficients that are periodic outside of an "interface region" of finite thickness. The question investigated in this article is the limiting long time/large scale behavior of such a process under…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-04-20 Martin Hairer , Charles Manson

We report experiments on spontaneous imbibition of a viscous fluid by a model porous medium in the absence of gravity. The average position of the interface satisfies Washburn's law. Scaling of the interface fluctuations provides a dynamic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Soriano , A. Mercier , R. Planet , A. Hernandez-Machado , M. A. Rodriguez , J. Ortin

This paper studies a polymer chain in the vicinity of a linear interface separating two immiscible solvents. The polymer consists of random monomer types, while the interface carries random charges. Both the monomer types and the charges…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Frank den Hollander , Alex A. Opoku

We investigate numerically using the bond--fluctuation model the adsorption of a random AB--copolymer at the interface between two solvents. From our results we infer several scaling relations: the radius of gyration of the copolymer in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Gongwen Peng , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Alexander Blumen

We consider a two-dimensional model of a porous medium where circular grains are uniformly distributed in a squared container. We assume that such medium is partially filled with water and that the stationary interface separating the water…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-15 Maria Calle , Carlota M. Cuesta , Juan J. L. Velazquez

We provide a theoretical framework to analyze the properties of frontal collisions of two growing interfaces considering different short range interactions between them. Due to their roughness, the collision events spread in time and form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-05 Fabio D. A. Aarao Reis , Olivier Pierre-Louis

We establish a thermodynamic limit and Gaussian fluctuations for the height and surface width of the random interface formed by the deposition of particles on surfaces. The results hold for the standard ballistic deposition model as well as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mathew D. Penrose , J. E. Yukich

We consider a discrete-time model for random interface growth which admits exact formulas and converges to the Polynuclear growth model in a particular limit. The height of the interface is initially flat and the evolution involves the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Will FitzGerald