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A basic challenge in experimental physics is the extraction of information related to variables that are not directly measured. The challenge is particularly severe in quantum systems where one may be interested in correlations of operators…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-13 Jackson Lee , Andrew J Millis

Experiments on chains of Rydberg atoms appear as a new playground to study quantum phase transitions in 1D. As a natural extension, we report a quantitative ground-state phase diagram of Rydberg atoms arranged in a two-leg ladder that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-11 Jose Soto , Natalia Chepiga

Increasing the number of particles in a system often leads to qualitative changes in its properties, such as breaking of symmetries and the appearance of phase transitions. This renders a macroscopic system fundamentally different from its…

The area of Machine learning (ML) has seen exceptional growth in recent years. Successful implementation of ML methods in various branches of physics has led to new insights. These methods have been shown to classify phases in condensed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-25 Karthik Padavala , Avaneesh Singh , Joyjit Kundu

We introduce a local order metric (LOM) that measures the degree of order in the neighborhood of an atomic or molecular site in a condensed medium. The LOM maximizes the overlap between the spatial distribution of sites belonging to that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Fausto Martelli , Hsin-Yu Ko , Erdal C. Oguz , Roberto Car

Predicting solid-solid phase transitions remains a long-standing challenge in materials science. Solid-solid transformations underpin a wide range of functional properties critical to energy conversion, information storage, and thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-03 Cibrán López , Joshua Ojih , Ming Hu , Josep Lluis Tamarit , Edgardo Saucedo , Claudio Cazorla

We found that Bidirectional LSTM and Transformer can classify different phases of condensed matter models and determine the phase transition points by learning features in the Monte Carlo raw data before equilibrium. Our method can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-15 Jiewei Ding , Ho-Kin Tang , Wing Chi Yu

Metasurfaces are an emerging platform for manipulating light on a two-dimensional plane. Existing metasurfaces comprise arrays of optical resonators such as plasmonic antennas or high-index nanorods. In this letter, we describe a new…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-30 Ming Zhou , Jingfeng Liu , Mikhail Kats , Zongfu Yu

Symmetry provides important insight in understanding the nature of phase transitions. In the presence of crystalline symmetries, new phenomena in phase transition can emerge, such as intertwined orders and emergent symmetries. In this work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Heqiu Li

Previous and present "academic" research aiming at atomic scale understanding is mainly concerned with the study of individual molecular processes possibly underlying materials science applications. Appealing properties of an individual…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Karsten Reuter , Catherine Stampfl , Matthias Scheffler

The dynamic of complex ordering systems with active rotational degrees of freedom exemplified by protein self-assembly is explored using a machine learning workflow that combines deep learning-based semantic segmentation and rotationally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-26 Sergei V. Kalinin , Shuai Zhang , Mani Valleti , Harley Pyles , David Baker , James J. De Yoreo , Maxim Ziatdinov

Crystal lattice deformations can be described microscopically by explicitly accounting for the position of atoms or macroscopically by continuum elasticity. In this work, we report on the description of continuous elastic fields derived…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-25 Marco Salvalaglio , Axel Voigt , Ken R. Elder

Recent advances in (scanning) transmission electron microscopy have enabled routine generation of large volumes of high-veracity structural data on 2D and 3D materials, naturally offering the challenge of using these as starting inputs for…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-11-08 Ayana Ghosh , Maxim Ziatdinov , Ondrej Dyck , Bobby Sumpter , Sergei V. Kalinin

Topological phase transitions, which do not adhere to Landau's phenomenological model (i.e. a spontaneous symmetry breaking process and vanishing local order parameters) have been actively researched in condensed matter physics. Machine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Alexander Kerr , Geo Jose , Colin Riggert , Kieran Mullen

The advent of high-resolution electron and scanning probe microscopy imaging has opened the floodgates for acquiring atomically resolved images of bulk materials, 2D materials, and surfaces. This plethora of data contains an immense volume…

We study ground-state quantum entanglement in the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model in the presence of a harmonic trap. We focus on two transitions that occur upon increasing the characteristic particle density: the formation of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-20 Yicheng Zhang , Lev Vidmar , Marcos Rigol

Controlling crystalline material defects is crucial, as they affect properties of the material that may be detrimental or beneficial for the final performance of a device. Defect analysis on the sub-nanometer scale is enabled by…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-03 Nik Dennler , Antonio Foncubierta-Rodriguez , Titus Neupert , Marilyne Sousa

Atomic-scale defect detection is shown in scanning tunneling microscopy images of single crystal WSe2 using an ensemble of U-Net-like convolutional neural networks. Standard deep learning test metrics indicated good detection performance…

Structural transformations at interfaces are of profound fundamental interest as complex examples of phase transitions in low-dimensional systems. Despite decades of extensive research, no compelling evidence exists for structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-28 Timofey Frolov , David L. Olmsted , Mark Asta , Yuri Mishin

Identifying quantum phase transitions poses a significant challenge in condensed matter physics, as this requires methods that both provide accurate results and scale well with system size. In this work, we demonstrate how relaxation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 David Jansen , Donato Farina , Luke Mortimer , Timothy Heightman , Andreas Leitherer , Pere Mujal , Jie Wang , Antonio Acín