Kink dynamics with oscillating forces

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2015/08/P08004MaRDI QIDQ3302358zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Thomas le Goff, Paolo Politi, Olivier Pierre-Louis

Publication date 11 August 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00853

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

Abstract: It is well known that the dynamics of a one-dimensional dissipative system driven by the Ginzburg-Landau free energy may be described in terms of interacting kinks: two neighbouring kinks at distance $ell$ feel an attractive force $F(ell)approxexp(-ell)$. This result is typical of a bistable system whose inhomogeneities have an energy cost due to surface tension, but for some physical systems bending rigidity rather than surface tension plays a leading role. We show that a kink dynamics is still applicable, but the force $F(ell)$ is now oscillating, therefore producing configurations which are locally stable. We also propose a new derivation of kink dynamics, which applies to a generalized Ginzburg-Landau free energy with an arbitrary combination of surface tension, bending energy, and higher-order terms. Our derivation is not based on a specific multikink approximation and the resulting kink dynamics reproduces correctly the full dynamics of the original model. This allows to use our derivation with confidence in place of the continuum dynamics, reducing simulation time by orders of magnitude.

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