It is shown that the recently proposed target space duality for (0, 2) models is not limited to models admitting a Landau-Ginzburg description. By studying some generic examples it is established for the broader class of vector bundles over complete intersections in toric varieties. Instead of sharing a common Landau-Ginzburg locus, a pair of dual models agrees in more general non-geometric pha...

We study slowly moving solutions of the real Ginzburg-Landau equation on the line, by a method due to J. Carr and R.L. Pego. These are functions taking alternately positive or negative values on large intervals. A consequence of our approach is that we can propose a rigorous derivation of a stochastic model of coarsening by successive elimination of the smallest interval, which was described in...

Results from a comprehensive analytical and numerical study of nonequilibrium dynamics in the two-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation have been presented. In particular, spiral defects have been used to characterize the domain growth law and the evolution morphology. An asymptotic analysis of the single-spiral correlation function shows a sequence of singularities-analogous to those se...

The Meissner effect for superconductors in spacetimes with tor-sion is revisited.Two new physical interpretations are presented.The first considers the Landau-Ginzburg theory yields a new symmetry-breaking vacuum depending on torsion.In the second interpretation a gravitational Meissner torsional effect where when the Higgs field vanishes, torsion and electromagnetic fields need not vanish and ...

For a Selkov–Schnakenberg model as a prototype reaction-diffusion system on two dimensional domains we use the continuation and bifurcation software pde2path to numerically calculate branches of patterns embedded in patterns, for instance hexagons embedded in stripes and vice versa, with a planar interface between the two patterns. We use the Ginzburg-Landau reduction to approximate the locatio...

This article presents a phenomenological dynamic phase transition theory – modeling and analysis – for superfluids. As we know, although the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model has been successfully used in superconductivity, and the classical Ginzburg-Landau free energy is still poorly applicable to liquid helium in a quantitative sense. The study in this article is based on 1) a new dynamic ...

The dispersionless Toda hierarchy turns out to lie in the heart of a recently proposed Landau-Ginzburg formulation of two-dimensional string theory at self-dual compactification radius. The dynamics of massless tachyons with discrete momenta is shown to be encoded into the structure of a special solution of this integrable hierarchy. This solution is obtained by solving a Riemann-Hilbert proble...

Thermal fluctuations and material inhomogeneities have a large effect on superconducting phenomena, possibly inducing transitions to the non-superconducting state. To gain a better understanding of these effects, the Ginzburg–Landau model is studied in situations for which the described physical processes are subject to uncertainty. An adequate description of such processes is possible with the...