Resetting of fluctuating interfaces at power-law times

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/44/445001zbMATH Open1357.82045arXiv1604.06627OpenAlexW3104813263MaRDI QIDQ2834809FDOQ2834809

Authors: Shamik Gupta, Apoorva Nagar 

Publication date: 24 November 2016

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

random processesfluctuation phenomenafluctuating interfacesstochastic resetting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

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