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  • Non-equilibrium statistical physics
  • Surface growth phenomena
  • Fractal geometry

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  • Many natural and artificial interfaces, such as bacterial colony boundaries and semiconductor layers, exhibit self-affine fractal properties with universal scaling exponents.
  • The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation, incorporating lateral growth, successfully describes non-equilibrium roughening on flat substrates with uncorrelated randomness.
  • Analytical solutions for interface fluctuation statistics are available for 1D substrates, but higher dimensions typically require numerical simulations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review a variational approach enabling analytical progress in understanding non-equilibrium interface roughening, irrespective of substrate dimensionality.
  • To present numerical results on the time evolution and scaling behavior of the non-equilibrium potential (NEP) for dimensions d=1, 2, and 3.
  • To explore the stochastic thermodynamics and initial condition dependence of the NEP in the KPZ and Golubović-Bruinsma (GB) models.

Main Methods:

  • Review of a variational approach for analyzing interface growth dynamics.
  • Numerical simulations of the non-equilibrium potential (NEP) evolution and scaling.
  • Stochastic thermodynamic analysis of roughening processes.

Main Results:

  • The variational approach provides analytical tractability for non-equilibrium roughening across various substrate dimensions (d=1, 2, 3).
  • Numerical data on NEP evolution and scaling with the nonlinearity parameter λ are presented.
  • Evidence is provided for the significant dependence of the NEP's asymptotic behavior on initial conditions in both KPZ and GB models.

Conclusions:

  • The variational method offers a powerful tool for studying universal scaling in non-equilibrium systems beyond 1D.
  • The NEP's behavior is sensitive to initial conditions, highlighting the importance of memory effects in roughening processes.
  • Further research is needed to address open questions regarding the stochastic thermodynamics and universality of these models.