Interfacial depinning transitions in disordered media: revisiting an old puzzle

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/10/P10024zbMATH Open1456.82719arXiv1409.2825OpenAlexW2128967330MaRDI QIDQ3301754FDOQ3301754

Authors: B. Moglia, Pablo Villegas, E. V. Albano, Miguel A. Muñoz 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

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

Abstract: Interfaces advancing through random media represent a number of different problems in physics, biology and other disciplines. Here, we study the pinning/depinning transition of the prototypical non-equilibrium interfacial model, i.e. the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, advancing in a disordered medium. We analyze separately the cases of positive and negative non-linearity coefficients, which are believed to exhibit qualitatively different behavior: the positive case shows a continuous transition that can be related to directed-percolation-depinning while in the negative case there is a discontinuous transition and faceted interfaces appear. Some studies have argued from different perspectives that both cases share the same universal behavior. Here, by using a number of computational and scaling techniques we shed light on this puzzling situation and conclude that the two cases are intrinsically different.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2825

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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