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We study the finite temperature phase structure for three-flavor QCD with a focus on locating the critical point which separates crossover and first order phase transition region in the chiral regime of the Columbia plot. In this study, we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-10-20 Xiao-Yong Jin , Yoshinobu Kuramashi , Yoshifumi Nakamura , Shinji Takeda , Akira Ukawa

The present work suggests rigorous criteria to determine phase transitions in Coulomb crystals in a linear ion trap. The proposed method is based on the analysis of a cross size $\rho_i$ and relative polar angle between neighboring…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 A. V. Romanova , S. S. Rudyi , Y. V. Rozhdestvensky

Properties of quantum shape-phase transitions in finite nuclei are considered in the framework of the interacting boson model. Special emphasis is paid to the dynamics at the critical-point of a general first-order phase transition.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Leviatan

QCD critical point is a landmark region in the QCD phase diagram outlined by temperature as a function of baryon chemical potential. To the right of this second-order phase transition point, one expects first order quark-hadron phase…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-05-25 A. Pandav , D. Mallick , B. Mohanty

A generalization to the quantum case of a recently introduced algorithm (Y. Tomita and Y. Okabe, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 86}, 572 (2001)) for the determination of the critical temperature of classical spin models is proposed. We describe a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Alet , E. Sorensen

We investigate the finite-size scaling exponents for the critical point at the shape phase transition from U(5) (spherical) to O(6) (deformed $\gamma$-unstable) dynamical symmetries of the Interacting Boson Model, making use of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Dusuel , J. Vidal , J. M. Arias , J. Dukelsky , J. E. Garcia-Ramos

We report a fairly detailed finite-size scaling analysis of the first-order phase transition in the three-dimensional 3-state Potts model on cubic lattices with emphasis on recently introduced quantities whose infinite-volume extrapolations…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-01 Wolfhard Janke , Ramon Villanova

The phase transition of the three--dimensional random field Ising model with a discrete ($\pm h$) field distribution is investigated by extensive Monte Carlo simulations. Values of the critical exponents for the correlation length, specific…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-06-05 Heiko Rieger , A. P. Young

The phase transition of the three--dimensional random field Ising model with a discrete ($\pm h$) field distribution is investigated by extensive Monte Carlo simulations. Values of the critical exponents for the correlation length, specific…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Heiko Rieger , A. P. Young

Starting from the recognition that hadrons are not produced smoothly at phase transition, the fluctuation of spatial patterns is investigated by finding a measure of the voids that exhibits scaling behavior. The Ising model is used to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Rudolph C. Hwa , Qing-hui Zhang

Phase transitions are divided into first-order phase transitions and continuous ones in current classification. While the latter shows striking phenomena of scaling and universality, the former is generically characterized by discontinuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-04 Jiapeng Yang , Fan Zhong

We study the geometric phase of the ground state in a one-dimensional transverse XY spin chain in the vicinity of a quantum multi-critical point. We approach the multi-critical point along different paths and estimate the geometric phase by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Ayoti Patra , Victor Mukherjee , Amit Dutta

Changepoint detection is commonly formulated by minimizing the sum of in-sample losses to quantify the model's overall fit. However, for flexible modeling procedures -- especially those involving high-dimensional parameter spaces or…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-05 Chengde Qian , Guanghui Wang , Zhaojun Wang , Changliang Zou

The critical behavior at a corner in two-dimensional Ising and three-state Potts models is studied numerically on the square lattice using transfer operator techniques. The local critical exponents for the magnetization and the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Karevski , P. Lajko , L. Turban

It is proposed that the $O(n)$ spin and geometrical percolation models can help to study the QCD phase diagram due to the universality properties of the phase transition. In this paper, correlations and fluctuations of various sizes of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-30 Lizhu Chen , Yeyin Zhao , Xiaobing Li , Zhiming Li , Yuanfang Wu

This paper considers the problem of estimating a change point in the covariance matrix in a sequence of high-dimensional vectors, where the dimension is substantially larger than the sample size. A two-stage approach is proposed to…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-31 H. Dette , G. M. Pan , Q. Yang

Using tensor network methods, we perform finite-size scaling analysis to study the parameter-induced phase transitions of two-dimensional deformed Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki states. We use higher-order tensor renormalization group method…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-14 Ching-Yu Huang , Yuan-Chun Lu , Pochung Chen

We study the finite-temperature critical point of QCD in the heavy-quark region by a scaling study of the Binder cumulant on large lattices. Extending our previous study at $N_t=4$, we perform simulations on $N_t=6$ and 8 lattices with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-12-03 Kazuyuki Kanaya , Ryo Ashikawa , Shinji Ejiri , Masakiyo Kitazawa , Hiroto Sugawara

We propose a machine learning framework based on Flow Matching (FM) to identify critical properties in many-body systems efficiently. Using the 2D XY model as a benchmark, we demonstrate that a single network, trained only on configurations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Qian-Rui Lee , Daw-Wei Wang

It was shown recently that a PT-symmetric $i\phi^3$ quantum field theory in $6-\epsilon$ dimensions possesses a nontrivial fixed point. The critical behavior of this theory around the fixed point is examined and it is shown that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-24 Carl M. Bender , V. Branchina , Emanuele Messina