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Lee-Yang theory is central to the analysis of thermal phase transitions. However, the underlying mechanism of the theory and the nature of Lee-Yang zeros in quantum many-body systems remains elusive. Here, we develop a unified framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Tian-Yi Gu , Gaoyong Sun

We investigate Yang-Lee zeros of grand partition functions as truncated fugacity polynomials of which coefficients are given by the canonical partition functions $Z(T,V,N)$ up to $N \leq N_{\text{max}}$. Such a partition function can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Kenji Morita , Atsushi Nakamura

In quantum dynamics, the Loschmidt amplitude is analogous to the partition function in the canonical ensemble. Zeros in the partition function indicate a phase transition, while the presence of zeros in the Loschmidt amplitude indicates a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Mingtao Xu , Wei Yi , De-Huan Cai

The analytic structure of the partition function in finite-volume systems is investigated at complex chemical potentials in a minimal mean-field effective model of QCD with finite-size effects incorporated. We discuss the temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Tatsuya Wada , Győző Kovács , Masakiyo Kitazawa , Takahiro M. Doi

Lee-Yang (LY) zeros, points on the complex plane of physical parameters where the partition function goes to zero, have found diverse applications across multiple disciplines like statistical physics, protein folding, percolation, complex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-06 Arijit Chatterjee , T S Mahesh , Mounir Nisse , Yen-Kheng Lim

Canonical partition functions and Lee-Yang zeros of QCD at finite density and high temperature are studied. Recent lattice simulations have confirmed that the free energy of QCD is a quartic function of quark chemical potential at…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-27 Keitaro Nagata , Kouji Kashiwa , Atsushi Nakamura , Shinsuke M. Nishigaki

We analyze the partition function of the Ising model on graphs of two different types: complete graphs, wherein all nodes are mutually linked and annealed scale-free networks for which the degree distribution decays as $P(k)\sim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-23 M. Krasnytska , B. Berche , Yu. Holovatch , R. Kenna

The seminal Lee-Yang theorem states that for any graph the zeros of the partition function of the ferromagnetic Ising model lie on the unit circle in $\mathbb C$. In fact the union of the zeros of all graphs is dense on the unit circle. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Han Peters , Guus Regts

We study the Roberge-Weiss phase transition numerically. The phase transition is associated with the discontinuities in the quark-number density at specific values of imaginary quark chemical potential. We parameterize the quark number…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-25 V. G. Bornyakov , N. V. Gerasimeniuk , V. A. Goy , A. A. Korneev , A. V. Molochkov , A. Nakamura , R. N. Rogalyov

We show that, at the critical temperature, there is a class of Lee-Yang zeros of the partition function in a general scalar field theory, which location scales with the size of the system with a characteristic exponent expressed in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-07 N. G. Antoniou , F. K. Diakonos , X. N. Maintas , C. E. Tsagkarakis

Determining the phase diagram of interacting quantum many-body systems is an important task for a wide range of problems such as the understanding and design of quantum materials. For classical equilibrium systems, the Lee-Yang formalism…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-03 Pascal M. Vecsei , Jose L. Lado , Christian Flindt

Phase transitions are typically accompanied by non-analytic behaviors of the free energy, which can be explained by considering the zeros of the partition function in the complex plane of the control parameter and their approach to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-06 Aydin Deger , Christian Flindt

Yang-Lee edge singularities (YLES) are the edges of the partition function zeros of an interacting spin model in the space of complex control parameters. They play an important role in understanding non-Hermitian phase transitions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Ruizhe Shen , Tianqi Chen , Mohammad Mujahid Aliyu , Fang Qin , Yin Zhong , Huanqian Loh , Ching Hua Lee

We apply the Yang-Lee theory of phase transitions to an urn model of separation of sand. The effective partition function of this nonequilibrium system can be expressed as a polynomial of the size-dependent effective fugacity $z$. Numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioana Bena , Francois Coppex , Michel Droz , Adam Lipowski

We study a phase transition in a non-equilibrium model first introduced in [5], using the Yang-Lee description of equilibrium phase transitions in terms of both canonical and grand canonical partition function zeros. The model consists of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Farhad H Jafarpour

While the zeros of complex partition functions, such as Lee-Yang zeros and Fisher zeros, have been pivotal in characterizing temperature-driven phase transitions, extending this concept to zero temperature remains an open question. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Jinghu Liu , Shuai Yin , Li Chen

We study the Yang-Lee zeros of a random matrix partition function with the global symmetries of the QCD partition function. We consider both zeros in the complex chemical potential plane and in the complex mass plane. In both cases we find…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 M. A. Halasz , A. D. Jackson , J. J. M. Verbaarschot

To simulate indistinguishable particles, recent studies of path-integral molecular dynamics formulated their partition function $Z$ as a recurrence relation involving a variable $\xi$, with $\xi=1$(-1) for bosons (fermions). Inspired by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ran-Chen He , Jia-Xi Zeng , Shu Yang , Cong Wang , Qi-Jun Ye , Xin-Zheng Li

As a foundation of statistical physics, Lee and Yang in 1952 proved that the partition functions of thermal systems can be zero at certain points (called Lee-Yang zeros) on the complex plane of temperature. In the thermodynamic limit, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-24 Bo-Bo Wei , Ren-Bao Liu

We describe classical stochastic processes by using dynamical Lee-Yang zeros. The system is in contact with external leads and the time evolution is described by the two-state classical master equation. The cumulant generating function is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-25 Hiroki Yoshida , Kazutaka Takahashi