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Topologically ordered systems are characterized by topological invariants that are often calculated from the momentum space integration of a certain function that represents the curvature of the many-body state. The curvature function may…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 Wei Chen

We apply the fidelity metric approach to analyze two recently introduced models that exhibit a quantum phase transition to a topologically ordered phase. These quantum models have a known connection to classical statistical mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 Damian F. Abasto , Alioscia Hamma , Paolo Zanardi

The investigation of the Hamiltonian dynamical counterpart of phase transitions, combined with the Riemannian geometrization of Hamiltonian dynamics, has led to a preliminary formulation of a differential-topological theory of phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-19 Matteo Gori , Roberto Franzosi , Giulio Pettini , Marco Pettini

We consider the problem of change-point estimation of the instantaneous phase of an observed time series. Such change points, or phase shifts, can be markers of information transfer in complex systems; their analysis occurring in geology,…

Applications · Statistics 2014-01-17 William Marshall , Paul Marriott

A model in statistical mechanics, characterised by the corresponding Gibbs measure, is a subset of the totality of probability distributions on the phase space. The shape of this subset, i.e., the geometry, then plays an important role in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. C. Brody , A. Ritz

We present a new approach for understanding the periodicity structure and semantics of motion datasets, independently of the morphology and skeletal structure of characters. Unlike existing methods using an overly sparse high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Peizhuo Li , Sebastian Starke , Yuting Ye , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Quantum theory provides an extensive framework for the description of the equilibrium properties of quantum matter. Yet experiments in quantum simulators have now opened up a route towards generating quantum states beyond this equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-24 Markus Heyl

As phenomena that necessarily emerge from the collective behavior of interacting particles, phase transitions continue to be difficult to predict using statistical thermodynamics. A recent proposal called the topological hypothesis suggests…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-08 O. B. Ericok , J. K. Mason

The discovery of topological features of quantum states plays an important role in modern condensed matter physics and various artificial systems. Due to the absence of local order parameters, the detection of topological quantum phase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

We introduce a coherence susceptibility method, based on the fact that it signals quantum fluctuations, for identifying quantum phase transitions, which are induced by quantum fluctuations. This method requires no prior knowledge of order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 Jin-Jun Chen , Jian Cui , Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

We study phase transformations in finite nuclei as a function of interaction parameters. The signature of a transition is given by invariant correlational entropy that reflects the sensitivity of an individual many-body state to changes of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Alexander Volya , Vladimir Zelevinsky

We propose a multi-threshold change plane regression model which naturally partitions the observed subjects into subgroups with different covariate effects. The underlying grouping variable is a linear function of covariates and thus…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-03 Jialiang Li , Yaguang Li , Baisuo Jin

The phase behavior is investigated for systems composed of a large number of macromolecular components N, with N greater or equal to 2. Liquid-liquid phase separation is modelled using a virial expansion up to the second order of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-29 Arjen Bot , Erik van der Linden , Paul Venema

A century ago, it was predicted that the first significant digit appearing in a data would be nonuniformly distributed, with the number one appearing with the highest frequency. This law goes by the name of Benford's law. It holds for data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-07 Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

This paper looks at the early theory of phase transitions. It considers a group of related concepts derived from condensed matter and statistical physics. The key technical ideas here go under the names of "singularity", "order parameter",…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2009-09-14 Leo P. Kadanoff

Two-level atoms interacting with a one mode cavity field at zero temperature have order parameters which reflect the presence of a quantum phase transition at a critical value of the atom-cavity coupling strength. Two popular examples are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. G. Hirsch , O. Castaños , E. Nahmad-Achar , R. López-Penã

There is a growing interest in methods for detecting and interpreting changes in experimental time evolution data. Based on measured time series, the quantitative characterization of dynamical phase transitions at bifurcation points of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-19 Bulcsú Sándor , András Rusu , Károly Dénes , Mária Ercsey-Ravasz , Zsolt I. Lázár

In a system of many similar self-propelled entities such as flocks of birds, fish school, cells and molecules, the interactions with neighbors can lead to a "coherent state", meaning the formation of visually compelling aggregation patterns…

Applications · Statistics 2024-03-07 Thevasha Sathiyakumar , Shantanu Sur , Sumona Mondal , Marko Budišić

The transition between low and high density phases is a typical feature of systems with social interactions. This contribution focuses on simple evacuation design of one room with one entrance and one exit; four passing-through experiments…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Marek Bukáček , Pavel Hrabák , Milan Krbálek

An extension to computational mechanics complexity measure is proposed in order to tackle quantum states complexity quantification. The method is applicable to any $n-$partite state of qudits through some simple modifications. A Werner…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-10-28 Yuri Campbell , José Roberto Castilho Piqueira