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We investigate the critical scaling behavior of finite systems in the canonical ensemble. The essential difference with the grand canonical ensemble. i.e., the constraint on the number of particles, is already known to lead to the Fisher…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Youjin Deng , Henk W. J. Blote

Rigidity transitions induced by the formation of system-spanning disordered rigid clusters, like the jamming transition, can be well-described in most physically relevant dimensions by mean-field theories. A dynamical mean-field theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-14 Stephen J. Thornton , Danilo B. Liarte , Itai Cohen , James P. Sethna

We introduce a solvable model of randomly growing systems consisting of many independent subunits. Scaling relations and growth rate distributions in the limit of infinite subunits are analysed theoretically. Various types of scaling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-12 Misako Takayasu , Hayafumi Watanabe , Hideki Takayasu

The random q-state quantum Potts model is studied on hypercubic lattices in dimensions 2 and 3 using the numerical implementation of the Strong Disorder Renormalization Group introduced by Kovacs and Igl{\'o}i [Phys. Rev. B 82, 054437…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-26 Valentin Anfray , Christophe Chatelain

Critical behaviour of a nearly critical system, subjected to vivid turbulent mixing, is studied by means of the field theoretic renormalization group. Namely, relaxational stochastic dynamics of a non-conserved order parameter of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 N. V. Antonov , A. S. Kapustin

We present a scaling theory for the entanglement spectrum under an external driving. Based on the static scaling of the Schmidt gap and the theory of finite-time scaling, we show that the Schmidt gap can signal the critical point and be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Qijun Hu , Shuai Yin , Fan Zhong

Phase transitions and critical phenomena are among the most intriguing phenomena in nature and society. They are classified as first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous ones. While the latter show marvelous phenomena of scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-24 Fan Zhong

We present the finite-size scaling theory of one-dimensional quantum critical systems in the presence of boundaries. While the finite-size spectrum in the conformal limit, namely of a conformal field theory with conformally invariant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-02 Yifan Liu , Haruki Shimizu , Atsushi Ueda , Masaki Oshikawa

Universality, encompassing critical exponents, scaling functions, and dimensionless quantities, is fundamental to phase transition theory. In finite systems, universal behaviors are also expected to emerge at the pseudocritical point.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Qiyuan Shi , Shuo Wei , Youjin Deng , Ming Li

Identifying the asymptotic criticality of a critical endpoint is challenging, as pseudo-first-order signatures persist over accessible system sizes and mask its underlying critical nature. This ambiguity is amplified at endpoints controlled…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yihua Sun , Yuchen Fan

Extreme events can come either from point processes, when the size or energy of the events is above a certain threshold, or from time series, when the intensity of a signal surpasses a threshold value. We are particularly concerned by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-26 Alvaro Corral

The finite-size scaling theory for continuous phase transition plays an important role in determining critical point and critical exponents from the size-dependent behaviors of quantities in the thermodynamic limit. For percolation phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-10 Yong Zhu , Xiaosong Chen

We analyze the entropic equation of state for a many-particle interacting system in a scale-free network. The analysis is performed in terms of scaling functions which are of fundamental interest in the theory of critical phenomena and have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-23 C. von Ferber , R. Folk , Yu. Holovatch , R. Kenna , V. Palchykov

The finite-size scaling (FSS) theory for continuous phase transitions has been useful in determining the critical behavior from the size dependent behaviors of thermodynamic quantities. When the phase transition is discontinuous, however,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. S. Cho , S. -W. Kim , J. D. Noh , B. Kahng , D. Kim

The critical behavior of three-state statistical models invariant under the full symmetry group $S_3$ and its dependence on space dimension have been a matter of interest and debate. In particular, the phase transition of the 3-state Potts…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-22 Jose Gaite

We develop a dynamic field-theoretic renormalization-group (RG) theory for the cooling first-order phase transitions in the Potts model. It is suggested that the well-known imaginary fixed points of the $q$-state Potts model for $q>10/3$ in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-22 Ning Liang , Fan Zhong

We discuss the universal scaling laws of order parameter fluctuations in any system in which the second-order critical behavior can be identified. These scaling laws can be derived rigorously for equilibrium systems when combined with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Botet , M. Ploszajczak

We present a calculation of critical phenomena directly in continuous dimension d employing an exact renormalization group equation for the effective average action. For an Ising-type scalar field theory we calculate the critical exponents…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Ballhausen , J. Berges , C. Wetterich

We study the scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy of two dimensional conformal quantum critical systems, i.e. systems with scale invariant wave functions. They include two-dimensional generalized quantum dimer models on bipartite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-28 Benjamin Hsu , Michael Mulligan , Eduardo Fradkin , Eun-Ah Kim

The talk presented at ICMP 97 focused on the scaling limits of critical percolation models, and some other systems whose salient features can be described by collections of random lines. In the scaling limit we keep track of features seen…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Aizenman