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We report on an experimental study of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model of quantum spins interacting at infinite range in a transverse magnetic field, which exhibits a ferromagnetic phase transition in the thermodynamic limit. We use…

We propose quantum phase transitions beyond the Landau's paradigm of Sp(4) spin Heisenberg models on the triangular and square lattices, motivated by the exact Sp(4)$\simeq$ SO(5) symmetry of spin-3/2 fermionic cold atomic system with only…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Yang Qi , Cenke Xu

Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics exhibit a variety of complex phenomena far from equilibrium. It inherits challenges of equilibrium, including accurately describing the joint distribution of a large number of configurations, and also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-08 Ying Tang , Jing Liu , Jiang Zhang , Pan Zhang

Period-averaged electromagnetic spin angular momentum is a well-established quantity for monochromatic fields, governing phenomena such as light-matter interactions with chiral particles and spin-orbit coupling effects. In contrast, the…

We give an introduction to phase transitions in the steady states of systems that evolve stochastically with equilibrium and nonequilibrium dynamics, the latter defined as those that do not possess a time-reversal symmetry. We try as much…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. A. Blythe

Utilizing ultracold spinor gases as large-scale, many-body quantum simulation platforms, we establish a toolbox for the precise control, characterization, and detection of nonequilibrium dynamics via internal spinor phases. We develop a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-04 J. O. Austin-Harris , P. Sigdel , C. Binegar , S. E. Begg , T. Bilitewski , Y. Liu

Symmetries represent a fundamental constraint for physical systems and relevant new phenomena often emerge as a consequence of their breaking. An important example is provided by space- and time-translational invariance in statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-21 Matteo Marcuzzi , Andrea Gambassi , Michel Pleimling

Equilibrium phase transitions usually emerge from the microscopic behavior of many-body systems and are associated to interesting phenomena such as the generation of long-range order and spontaneous symmetry breaking. They can be defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-24 Emmanouil Grigoriou , Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch

We consider a model of strongly correlated $e_g$ electrons interacting by superexchange orbital interactions in the ferromagnetic phase of LaMnO$_3$. It is found that the classical orbital order with alternating occupied $e_g$ orbitals has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Jeroen van den Brink , Peter Horsch , Frank Mack , Andrzej M. Oles

It is believed that the theory of quantum gravity describing our universe is unitary. Nonetheless, if we only have access to a subsystem, its dynamics is described by nonequilibrium physics. Motivated by this, we investigate the planar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Minjae Cho

The time evolution of O(N) symmetric lambda Phi^4 scalar field theory is studied in the large N limit. In this limit the <Phi> mean field and two-point correlation function <Phi Phi> evolve together as a self-consistent closed Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Fred Cooper , Salman Habib , Yuval Kluger , Emil Mottola

The purpose of this paper is to show that: when a single particle moving under 3-proper time (three-dimensional time), the trajectories of a classical particle are equivalent to a quantum field with spin. Three-proper time models are built…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaodong Chen

Equilibrium statistical mechanics provides a robust framework for characterizing phase transitions in systems whose microsopic dynamics are time-reversible. Efforts to develop and validate theoretical frameworks for time-irreversible,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-18 Stuart J. Thomson , Jack-William Barotta , Daniel M. Harris

In previous papers we have introduced a natural nonequilibrium free energy by considering the functional describing the large fluctuations of stationary nonequilibrium states. While in equilibrium this functional is always convex, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-18 L. Bertini , A. De Sole , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona-Lasinio , C. Landim

Multi-component spin-singlet superconductors with competing 0- and $\pi$-pairing couplings, as in $s_{++}$ and $s_{\pm}$ phases, are close to instabilities with a spontaneous breaking of time-reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-29 Yuriy Yerin , Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler , Mario Cuoco , Caterina Petrillo

A proposed paradigm for out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is that an analogue of quantum phase transitions exists between parameter regimes of qualitatively distinct time-dependent behavior. Here, we present evidence of such a transition…

We report a new classical spin liquid in which the collective flux degrees of freedom break the translation symmetry of the honeycomb lattice. This exotic phase exists in frustrated spin-orbit magnets where a dominant off-diagonal exchange,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-02 Preetha Saha , Zhijie Fan , Depei Zhang , Gia-Wei Chern

We introduce a discrete-time quantum dynamics on a two-dimensional lattice that describes the evolution of a $1+1$-dimensional spin system. The underlying quantum map is constructed such that the reduced state at each time step is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 I. Lesanovsky , Katarzyna Macieszczak , Juan P. Garrahan

We develop a consistent semiclassical theory of spin dynamics for an isotropic ferromagnet with a spin $ S=1$ taking into consideration both bilinear and biquadratic over spin operators exchange interaction. For such non-Heisenberg magnets,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 B. A. Ivanov , A. Yu. Galkin , R. S. Khymyn , A. Yu. Merkulov

We study a nonequilibrium Ising model that stochastically evolves under the simultaneous operation of several spin-flip mechanisms. In other words, the local magnetic fields change sign randomly with time due to competing kinetics. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Nuno Crokidakis