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Mehran Kardar
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 387
Citations - 21502
Mehran Kardar is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Casimir effect & Casimir pressure. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 379 publications receiving 19707 citations. Previous affiliations of Mehran Kardar include University of California, Santa Barbara & University of Oxford.
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Dynamic Scaling of Growing Interfaces
TL;DR: A model is proposed for the evolution of the profile of a growing interface that exhibits nontrivial relaxation patterns, and the exact dynamic scaling form obtained for a one-dimensional interface is in excellent agreement with previous numerical simulations.
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The `Friction' of Vacuum, and other Fluctuation-Induced Forces
Mehran Kardar,Ramin Golestanian +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ a path integral formalism to examine the many unexpected phenomena of the dynamic Casimir effect due to moving boundaries and extract a plethora of interesting results, the most notable being: (i) the effective mass of a plate depends on its shape, and becomes anisotropic.
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Pressure is not a state function for generic active fluids
Alexandre Solon,Yaouen Fily,Aparna Baskaran,Michael E. Cates,Yariv Kafri,Mehran Kardar,Julien Tailleur +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the pressure that a fluid of self-propelled particles exerts on its container is dependent on microscopic interactions between fluid and container, suggesting that there is no equation of state for mechanical pressure in generic active systems.
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Burgers equation with correlated noise: Renormalization-group analysis and applications to directed polymers and interface growth.
TL;DR: The Burgers equation is the simplest nonlinear generalization of the diffusion equation subject to random noise and it is shown that an exponent identity observed in all simulations so far follows simply from the Galilean invariance of the equation in the absence of temporal correlations.
Book
Statistical physics of fields
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a solution to selected problems in random media, from particles to fields, from spin wave to statistical fields, and from fields to lattice systems.