Speaker
Prof.
Herbert Spohn
(Zentrum Mathematik and Physik Department, TU M¨ unchen)
Description
A widely studied nonequilibrium interface dynamics considers
a stable phase in contact with a metastable phase. If the
order parameter for the bulk phases is not conserved and
mixes rapidly, the effective equation of motion for the
interface was proposed by Kardar, Parisi, and Zhang some
time ago. We explain some recent exact solutions of this
equation in the case of a 1 D interface and their connection
to the thin film turbulent liquid experiment by Takeuchi and
Sano. In particular, the unanticipated role of replicas will
be emphasized.
Primary author
Prof.
Herbert Spohn
(Zentrum Mathematik and Physik Department, TU M¨ unchen)
