Asymptotic stability for diffusion with dynamic boundary reaction from Ginzburg-Landau energy

TL;DR

This paper proves the asymptotic stability of metastable transition profiles in a 2D dislocation model involving bulk diffusion and dynamic boundary reactions, advancing understanding of plastic deformation in materials.

Contribution

It establishes the first global stability result for a bulk-interface coupled system driven solely by interfacial reactions.

Findings

Solutions converge uniformly to metastable transition profiles.

Metastable profiles exhibit bi-states with fat-tail decay.

First stability proof for such coupled bulk-interface dynamics.

Abstract

The nonequilibrium process in dislocation dynamics and its relaxation to the metastable transition profile is crucial for understanding the plastic deformation caused by line defects in materials. In this paper, we consider the full dynamics of a scalar dislocation model in two dimensions described by the bulk diffusion equation coupled with dynamic boundary condition on the interface, where a nonconvex misfit potential, due to the presence of dislocation, yields an interfacial reaction term on the interface. We prove the dynamic solution to this bulk-interface coupled system will uniformly converge to the metastable transition profile, which has a bi-states with fat-tail decay rate at the far fields. This global stability for the metastable pattern is the first result for a bulk-interface coupled dynamics driven only by an interfacial reaction on the slip plane.