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In the present work, we discuss how the functional form of thermodynamic observables can be deduced from the geometric properties of subsets of phase space. The geometric quantities taken into account are mainly extrinsic curvatures of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-01 Ghofrane Bel-Hadj-Aissa , Matteo Gori , Vittorio Penna , Giulio Pettini , Roberto Franzosi

By viewing entanglement as a state function, a new kind of phase transition takes place: the geometric phase transition. This phenomenon occurs due to singularities in the shape of the entangled states set. It is shown how this result can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Cavalcanti , Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Marcelo O. Terra Cunha

The relationship between quantum phase transition and complex geometric phase for open quantum system governed by the non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonian with the accidental crossing of the eigenvalues is established. In particular, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander I. Nesterov , S. G. Ovchinnikov

During developmental processes such as embryogenesis, how a group of cells fold into specific structures, is a central question in biology that defines how living organisms form. Establishing tissue-level morphology critically relies on how…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-23 Haiqian Yang , Anh Q. Nguyen , Dapeng Bi , Markus J. Buehler , Ming Guo

Evolution of coherent states is considered for a particle confined to a cylinder moving in a harmonic oscillator potential. Because of the discontinuous changes as time goes by of the phase representing the position of a particle on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-14 K. Kowalski , J. Rembieliński

A model of multicellular systems with several types of cells is developed from the phase field model. The model is presented as a set of partial differential equations of the field variables, each of which expresses the shape of one cell.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Makiko Nonomura

The generation of anisotropic shapes occurs during morphogenesis of almost all organisms. With the recent renewal of the interest in mechanical aspects of morphogenesis, it has become clear that mechanics contributes to anisotropic forms in…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-19 Jean-Daniel Julien , Arezki Boudaoud

We study the influence of geometry of quantum systems underlying space of states on its quantum many-body dynamics. We observe an interplay between dynamical and topological ingredients of quantum non-equilibrium dynamics revealed by the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-26 Michael Tomka , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Vladimir Gritsev

Coordinated movements of epithelia tissue are linked with active matter processes. We here consider the influence of curvature on the spatiotemporal arrangements and the shapes of the cells. The cells are represented by a multiphase field…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-18 Lea Happel , Dennis Wenzel , Axel Voigt

We show the presence of non-cyclic phases for oscillating neutrinos in the context of quantum field theory. Such phases carry information about the non-perturbative vacuum structure associated with the field mixing. By subtracting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-23 Massimo Blasone , Antonio Capolupo , Enrico Celeghini , Giuseppe Vitiello

Geometric measure of entanglement and geometric phase have recently been used to analyze quantum phase transition in the XY spin chain. We unify these two approaches by showing that the geometric entanglement and the geometric phase are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 Vahid Azimi Mousolou , Carlo M. Canali , Erik Sjöqvist

Quantum circuits consisting of random unitary gates and subject to local measurements have been shown to undergo a phase transition, tuned by the rate of measurement, from a state with volume-law entanglement to an area-law state. From a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-26 Yimu Bao , Soonwon Choi , Ehud Altman

Beyond the quantum Markov approximation, we calculate the geometric phase of a two-level system driven by a quantized magnetic field subject to phase dephasing. The phase reduces to the standard geometric phase in the weak coupling limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 X. X. Yi , L. C. Wang , W. Wang

In multicellular organisms, epithelial cells form layers separating compartments responsible for different physiological functions. At the early stage of epithelial layer formation, each cell of an aggregate defines an inner and an outer…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2010-02-09 A. Veglio , A. Gamba , M. Nicodemi , F. Bussolino , G. Serini

By characterizing the phase dynamics in coupled oscillators, we gain insights into the fundamental phenomena of complex systems. The collective dynamics in oscillatory systems are often described by order parameters, which are insufficient…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-03-24 Kazuha Itabashi , Quoc Hoan Tran , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Biological mixtures such as the cytosol may consist of thousands of distinct components. There is now a substantial body of evidence showing that, under physiological conditions, intracellular mixtures can phase separate into spatially…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-06 William M. Jacobs , Daan Frenkel

The geometric phase associated with a many body ground state exhibits a signature of quantum phase transition. In this context, we have studied the behaviour of the geometric phase during a linear quench caused by a gradual turning off of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 B. Basu

Geometric phases arise naturally in a variety of quantum systems with observable consequences. They also arise in quantum computations when dressed states are used in gating operations. Here we show how they arise in these gating operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Lian-Ao Wu , C. Allen Bishop , Mark S. Byrd

We show how a new quantum property, a geometric phase, associated with scattering states can be exhibited in nanoscale electronic devices. We propose an experiment to use interference to directly measure the effect of the new geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Urban Lundin , Sam Young Cho , Ross H. McKenzie

Time-dependent $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum mechanics is featured by a varying inner-product metric and has stimulated a number of interesting studies beyond conventional quantum mechanics. In this paper, we explore geometric aspects of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Da-Jian Zhang , Qing-hai Wang , Jiangbin Gong