Solitons in the noisy Burgers equation

Details Solitons in the noisy Burgers equation Solitons in the noisy Burgers equation

2001-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0105100v1

Phys. Rev. E 66, 016604 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages Revtex file, including 15 postscript-figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.66.016604

We investigate numerically the coupled diffusion-advective type field equations originating from the canonical phase space approach to the noisy Burgers equation or the equivalent Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in one spatial dimension. The equations support stable right hand and left hand solitons and in the low viscosity limit a long-lived soliton pair excitation. We find that two identical pair excitations scatter transparently subject to a size dependent phase shift and that identical solitons scatter on a static soliton transparently without a phase shift. The soliton pair excitation and the scattering configurations are interpreted in terms of growing step and nucleation events in the interface growth profile. In the asymmetrical case the soliton scattering modes are unstable presumably toward multi soliton production and extended diffusive modes, signalling the general non-integrability of the coupled field equations. Finally, we have shown that growing steps perform anomalous random walk with dynamic exponent z=3/2 and that the nucleation of a tip is stochastically suppressed with respect to plateau formation.

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