Three-Dimensional Kardar--Parisi--Zhang Scaling in Polariton Condensates

arXiv:2607.28106 2026 Architecture 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 31, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper derives an effective Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) phase dynamics by eliminating fast density and reservoir modes from a driven-dissipative condensate, leaving diffusion, a nonequilibrium gradient-square nonlinearity, and white noise. Its transferable asset is a concrete coarse-grained latent-field dynamics with a measurable universality signature: in 3+1 dimensions, temporal and spatial roughness exponents should approach beta = 0.1845 and chi = 0.3135. A neural operator or state-space model can use a differentiable KPZ evolution block for spatiotemporal latent states, with learned coefficients and a falsifiable scaling-law diagnostic.

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KPZ latent evolution block

Replace an unconstrained recurrent or neural-operator latent transition with a differentiable KPZ cell acting on a spatial latent field. The cell explicitly separates smoothing, nonequilibrium nonlinear steepening, and stochastic forcing, making it suitable for driven dissipative systems and long-horizon roughening that generic networks may fail to reproduce.

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Paper: Three-Dimensional Kardar--Parisi--Zhang Scaling in Polariton Condensates arXiv:2607.28106