Finite-size effects in the short-time height distribution of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AAA783zbMATH Open1459.82145arXiv1710.04188OpenAlexW2763251131MaRDI QIDQ4964465FDOQ4964465

Authors: Naftali R. Smith, Baruch Meerson, Pavel V. Sasorov 

Publication date: 2 March 2021

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

Abstract: We use the optimal fluctuation method to evaluate the short-time probability distribution $mathcalPleft(H,L,tight)$ of height at a single point, $H=hleft(x=0,tight)$, of the evolving Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) interface $hleft(x,tight)$ on a ring of length $2L$. The process starts from a flat interface. At short times typical (small) height fluctuations are unaffected by the KPZ nonlinearity and belong to the Edwards-Wilkinson universality class. The nonlinearity, however, strongly affects the (asymmetric) tails of $mathcalP(H)$. At large $L/sqrtt$ the faster-decaying tail has a double structure: it is $L$-independent, $-lnmathcalPsimleft|Hight{|}^{5/2}/t^{1/2}$, at intermediately large $|H|$, and $L$-dependent, $-lnmathcalPsimleft|Hight{|}^{2}L/t$, at very large $|H|$. The transition between these two regimes is sharp and, in the large $L/sqrtt$ limit, behaves as a fractional-order phase transition. The transition point $H=H_c^{+}$ depends on $L/sqrtt$. At small $L/sqrtt$, the double structure of the faster tail disappears, and only the very large-$H$ tail, $-lnmathcalPsimleft|Hight{|}^{2}L/t$, is observed. The slower-decaying tail does not show any $L$-dependence at large $L/sqrtt$, where it coincides with the slower tail of the GOE Tracy-Widom distribution. At small $L/sqrtt$ this tail also has a double structure. The transition between the two regimes occurs at a value of height $H=H_c^{-}$ which depends on $L/sqrtt$. At $L/sqrtto0$ the transition behaves as a mean-field-like second-order phase transition. At $|H|<|H_c^{-}|$ the slower tail behaves as $-lnmathcalPsimleft|Hight{|}^{2}L/t$, whereas at $|H|>|H_c^{-}|$ it coincides with the slower tail of the GOE Tracy-Widom distribution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04188

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

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