Stochastic growth in time dependent environments

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVE.101.040101MaRDI QIDQ6325966zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Guillaume Barraquand, Pierre Le Doussal, Alberto Rosso

Publication date 25 September 2019

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVE.101.040101

Abstract: We study the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) growth equation in one dimension with a noise variance $c(t)$ depending on time. We find that for $c(t)propto{t}^{-alpha}$ there is a transition at $alpha=1/2$. When $alpha>1/2$, the solution saturates at large times towards a non-universal limiting distribution. When $alpha<1/2$ the fluctuation field is governed by scaling exponents depending on $alpha$ and the limiting statistics are similar to the case when $c(t)$ is constant. We investigate this problem using different methods: (1) Elementary changes of variables mapping the time dependent case to variants of the KPZ equation with constant variance of the noise but in a deformed potential (2) An exactly solvable discretization, the log-gamma polymer model (3) Numerical simulations.

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