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Extending notions of phase transitions to nonequilibrium realm is a fundamental problem for statistical mechanics. While it was discovered that critical transitions occur even for transient states before relaxation as the singularity of a…
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Gaussian baths are widely used to model non-Markovian environments, yet the cost of accurate simulation at long times remains poorly understood, especially when spectral densities exhibit nonanalytic behavior as in a range of realistic…
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