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Interfacial phenomena of motility-induced phase separation of active particles challenge our conventional understanding of phase coexistence. Despite the ubiquity of nonmechanical communication couplings among real active particles, most…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-22 Zihao Sun , Longfei Li , Fangfu Ye , Mingcheng Yang

Recently some two-dimensional models with double symmetric absorbing states were shown to share the same critical behaviour that was called the voter universality class. We show, that for an absorbing-states Potts model with finite but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michel Droz , Antonio L. Ferreira , Adam Lipowski

A stochastic cellular automaton exhibiting parity conserving class transition has been investigated in the presence of quenched spatial disorder by large scale simulations. Numerical evidence has been found that weak disorder causes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Geza Odor , Nora Menyhard

We study a continuous quantum phase transition that breaks a $Z_2$ symmetry. We show that the transition is described by a new critical point which does not belong to the Ising universality class, despite the presence of well defined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-19 Ying Ran , Xiao-gang Wen

We investigate the static and dynamic critical behaviour of a uniformly driven bilayer Ising lattice gas at half filling. Depending on the strength of the interlayer coupling J, phase separation occurs across or within the two layers. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 U. C. Tauber , B. Schmittmann , R. K. P. Zia

We study the critical behavior of a continuous opinion model, driven by kinetic exchanges in a fully-connected population. Opinions range in the real interval $[-1,1]$, representing the different shades of opinions against and for an issue…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-18 Celia Anteneodo , Nuno Crokidakis

We extensively investigated the critical behavior of mixtures of colloids and polymers via the two-component Asakura-Oosawa model and its reduction to a one-component colloidal fluid using accurate theoretical and simulation techniques. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Lo Verso , R. L. C. Vink , D. Pini , L. Reatto

As a model for the transitions between plateaus in the fractional Quantum Hall effect we study the critical behavior of non-interacting charged particles in a static random magnetic field with finite mean value. We argue that this model…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Bodo Huckestein

We present results from Langevin dynamics simulations of a glassy active-passive mixture of soft-repulsive binary colloidal disks. Activity on the smaller particles is applied according to the quorum sensing scheme, in which a smaller…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-10 Jalim Singh , A. V. Anil Kumar

The contact process is a simple infection spreading model showcasing an out-of-equilibrium phase transition between a macroscopically active and an inactive phase. Such absorbing state phase transitions are often sensitive to the presence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-22 Leone V. Luzzatto , Juan Felipe Barrera López , István A. Kovács

The motility-induced phase separation exhibited by active particles with repulsive interactions is well known. We show that the interaction softness of active particles destabilizes the highly ordered dense phase, leading to the formation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-21 Monika Sanoria , Raghunath Chelakkot , Amitabha Nandi

Many non-equilibrium systems display dynamic phase transitions from active to absorbing states, where fluctuations cease entirely. Based on a field theory representation of the master equation, the critical behavior can be analyzed by means…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe C. Tauber

Quantum phase transitions also occur in non-Hermitian systems. In this work we show that density functional theory, for the first time, uncovers universal behaviors for phase transitions in non-Hermitian many-body systems. To be specific,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 Bo-Bo Wei , Liang Jin

To understand the onset of collective motion, we investigate active systems where particles switch on and off their self-propulsion. We prove that even when the only possible transition is off$\to$on, an active 2-state system behaves as an…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Hadrien-Matthieu Gascuel , Parisa Rahmani , Richard Bon , Fernando Peruani

Non-equilibrium critical phenomena generally exist in many dynamic systems, like chemical reactions and some driven-dissipative {reactive} particle systems. Here, by using computer simulation and theoretical analysis, we demonstrate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-26 Qun-Li Lei , Hao Hu , Ran Ni

A biologically motivated model for spatio-temporal coexistence of two competing species is studied by mean-field theory and numerical simulations. In d>1 dimensions the phase diagram displays an extended region where both species coexist,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heiko Reinhardt , Frank Boehm , Barbara Drossel , Haye Hinrichsen

Quantum multicritical points (QMCPs) emerge at the junction of two or more quantum phase transitions due to the interplay of disparate fluctuations, leading to novel universality classes. While quantum critical points have been well…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-11-15 István A. Kovács

We study a class of one-matrix models with an action containing nonpolynomial terms. By tuning the coupling constants in the action to criticality we obtain that the eigenvalue density vanishes as an arbitrary real power at the origin, thus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Akemann , G. Vernizzi

The critical behavior of the disordered ferromagnetic Ising model is studied numerically by the Monte Carlo method in a wide range of variation of concentration of nonmagnetic impurity atoms. The temperature dependences of correlation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-09-11 V. Prudnikov , P. Prudnikov , A. Vakilov , A. Krinitsyn

We have numerically studied the trapping problem in a two-dimensional lattice where particles are continuously generated. We have introduced interaction between particles and directionality of their movement. This model presents a critical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 I. Campos , A. Tarancon