Theory and experiments for disordered elastic manifolds, depinning, avalanches, and sandpiles

KJ Wiese - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Domain walls in magnets, vortex lattices in superconductors, contact lines at
depinning, and many other systems can be modeled as an elastic system subject to …

Creep motion of elastic interfaces driven in a disordered landscape

EE Ferrero, L Foini, T Giamarchi… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The thermally activated creep motion of an elastic interface weakly driven on a disordered
landscape is one of the best examples of glassy universal dynamics. Its understanding has …

Universal depinning transition of domain walls in ultrathin ferromagnets

R Diaz Pardo, W Savero Torres, AB Kolton… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We present a quantitative and comparative study of magnetic-field-driven domain-wall
depinning transition in different ferromagnetic ultrathin films over a wide range of …

Coulomb-gas electrostatics controls large fluctuations of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation

I Corwin, P Ghosal, A Krajenbrink, P Le Doussal… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We establish a large deviation principle for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation,
providing precise control over the left tail of the height distribution for narrow wedge initial …

Environmental heterogeneity can tip the population genetics of range expansions

M Gralka, O Hallatschek - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
The population genetics of most range expansions is thought to be shaped by the
competition between Darwinian selection and random genetic drift at the range margins …

Inertia-induced mixing and reaction maximization in laminar porous media flows

MA Chen, SH Lee, PK Kang - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - pnas.org
Solute transport and biogeochemical reactions in porous and fractured media flows are
controlled by mixing, as are subsurface engineering operations such as contaminant …

Transient magnetic-domain-wall ac dynamics by means of magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy

P Domenichini, CP Quinteros, M Granada, S Collin… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
The domain wall response under constant external magnetic fields reveals a complex
behavior where sample disorder plays a key role. Furthermore, the response to alternating …

Memory and universality in interface growth

J De Nardis, P Le Doussal, KA Takeuchi - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Recently, very robust universal properties have been shown to arise in one-dimensional
growth processes with local stochastic rules, leading to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) …

Intermittent collective dynamics of domain walls in the creep regime

MP Grassi, AB Kolton, V Jeudy, A Mougin… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We study the ultraslow domain-wall motion in ferromagnetic thin films driven by a weak
magnetic field. Using time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy, we access to …

Common universal behavior of magnetic domain walls driven by spin-polarized electrical current and magnetic field

R Diaz Pardo, N Moisan, LJ Albornoz, A Lemaître… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We explore the universal behaviors of a magnetic domain wall driven by the spin-transfer
torque of an electrical current, in a ferromagnetic (Ga, Mn)(As, P) thin film with perpendicular …