Resetting of fluctuating interfaces at power-law times

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/44/445001MaRDI QIDQ2834809zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shamik Gupta, Apoorva Nagar

Publication date 24 November 2016

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06627

zbMATH Keywords

fluctuating interfacesfluctuation phenomenarandom processesstochastic resetting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: What happens when the time evolution of a fluctuating interface is interrupted with resetting to a given initial configuration after random time intervals $au$ distributed as a power-law $sima{u}^{-(1+alpha)};alpha>0$? For an interface of length $L$ in one dimension, and an initial flat configuration, we show that depending on $alpha$, the dynamics as $Loinfty$ exhibits a rich long-time behavior. Without resetting, the interface width grows unbounded with time as $$, where $$ is the so-called growth exponent. We show that introducing resetting induces for $alpha>1$ and at long times fluctuations that are bounded in time. Corresponding to such a stationary state is a distribution of fluctuations that is strongly non-Gaussian, with tails decaying as a power-law. The distribution exhibits a cusp for small argument, implying that the stationary state is out of equilibrium. For $alpha<1$, resetting is unable to counter the otherwise unbounded growth of fluctuations in time, so that the distribution of fluctuations remains time dependent with an ever-increasing width even at long times. Although stationary for $alpha>1$, the width of the interface grows forever with time as a power-law for $1<alpha<alph{a}^{(mw)}$, and converges to a finite constant only for larger $alpha$, thereby exhibiting a crossover at $$. The time-dependent distribution of fluctuations for $alpha<1$ exhibits for small argument another interesting crossover behavior, from cusp to divergence, across $$. We demonstrate these results by exact analytical results for the paradigmatic Edwards-Wilkinson (EW) dynamical evolution of the interface, and further corroborate our findings by extensive numerical simulations of interface models in the EW and the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class.

Review text

The authors consider the Edwards-Wilkinson interface [\textit{S. F. Edwards} and \textit{D. R. Wilkinson}, ``The surface statistics of a granular aggregate, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A 381, No. 1780, 17--31 (1982; \url{doi:10.1098/rspa.1982.0056})] and envisage a dynamical scenario in which the evolution is repeatedly interrupted, with a resetting to the initial flat configuration, where two successive resets are separated by a random time interval \(\tau\) distributed according to a power-law: NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\rho(\tau)=\frac{\alpha}{\tau_0(\tau/\tau_0)^{1+\alpha}}; \;\;\tau\in [\tau_0,\infty), \;\;\alpha>0,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\tau_0\) is a microscopic cut-off. It is shown that the distribution of interface fluctuations exhibits a rich behavior with multiple crossovers on tuning the exponent \(\alpha\) of the power-law distribution.

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