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We study a control system resembling a singularly perturbed system whose variables are decomposed into groups that change their values with rates of different orders of magnitude. We establish that the slow trajectories of this system are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Vladimir Gaitsgory , Ilya Shvartsman

Quantum phase transitions occur when the ground state of a quantum system undergoes a qualitative change when an external control parameter reaches a critical value. Here, we demonstrate a technique for studying quantum systems undergoing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-14 Jingfu Zhang , Xinhua Peng , Nageswaran Rajendran , Dieter Suter

Out-of-equilibrium systems, inherently complex and challenging to understand, are prevalent across various disciplines, including physics where they arise in contexts such as fluid dynamics. In particular, critical out-of-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-14 J. M. Marcos

We discuss non-Fermi liquid and quantum critical behavior in heavy fermion materials, focussing on the mechanism by which the electron mass appears to diverge at the quantum critical point. We ask whether the basic mechanism for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Coleman , C. Pepin , Q. Si , R. Ramazashvili

Extending hyperuniformity from classical to quantum fluctuations in electron systems yields a framework that identifies quantum phase transitions and reveals underlying gap structures through the quantum weight. We study long-wavelength…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-27 Junmo Jeon , Shiro Sakai

Critical systems are described by conformal field theories, whose dynamics can be exactly solved in two dimensions. In the presence of a boundary, with the so-called method of images it is possible to study the surface critical behaviour of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Valentina Riva

We consider a one-dimensional fermionic lattice system with long-ranged power-law decaying hopping with exponent $\alpha$. The system is further subjected to dephasing noise in the bulk. We investigate two variants of the problem: (i) an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-04 Abhinav Dhawan , Katha Ganguly , Manas Kulkarni , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

We show that dynamic quantum phase transitions (DQPT) in many situations involve renormalization group (RG) fixed points that are unphysical in the context of thermal phase transitions. In such cases, boundary conditions are shown to become…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-22 Amina Khatun , Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

Reliable processing of quantum information for developing quantum technologies requires precise control of out-of-equilibrium many-bodysystems. This is a highly challenging task as the fragility of quantum states to external perturbations…

We review the critical behavior of nonequilibrium systems, such as directed percolation (DP) and branching-annihilating random walks (BARW), which possess phase transitions into absorbing states. After reviewing the bulk scaling behavior of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Frojdh , M. Howard , K. B. Lauritsen

We investigate quantum phase transitions, quantum criticality, and Berry phase for the ground state of an ensemble of non-interacting two-level atoms embedded in a non-linear optical medium, coupled to a single-mode quantized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 C. A. Estrada Guerra , J. Mahecha-Gómez , J. G. Hirsch

We study the effect of quenched disorder on the semimetal-superconductor quantum phase transition in a model of two-dimensional Dirac semimetal with $N$ flavors of two-component Dirac fermions, using perturbative renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-03 Hennadii Yerzhakov , Joseph Maciejko

We study orthogonal polynomial ensembles whose weights are deformations of exponential weights, in the limit of a large number of particles. The deformation symbols we consider affect local fluctuations of the ensemble around a bulk point…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Caio E. Candido , Victor Alves , Thomas Chouteau , Charles F. Santos , Guilherme L. F. Silva

The spontaneous breaking of non-invertible symmetries can lead to exotic phenomena such as coexistence of order and disorder. Here we explore second-order phase transitions in 1d spin chains between two phases that correspond to distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Yu-Hsueh Chen , Tarun Grover

Topology forms a cornerstone in modern condensed matter and statistical physics, offering a new framework to classify the phases and phase transitions beyond the traditional Landau paradigm. However, it is widely believed that topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-05 Xue-Jia Yu , Limei Xu , Hai-Qing Lin

Dynamical symmetry breaking in an expanding nuclear system is investigated in semi-classical and quantum framework by employing a collective transport model which is constructed to mimic the collective behavior of expanding systems. It is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Wen , P. Chau Huu-Tai , D. Lacroix , Ph. Chomaz , S. Ayik

The integer quantum Hall effect features a paradigmatic quantum phase transition. Despite decades of work, experimental, numerical, and analytical studies have yet to agree on a unified understanding of the critical behavior. Based on a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-30 Martin Puschmann , Philipp Cain , Michael Schreiber , Thomas Vojta

Adaptive quantum circuits-where a quantum many-body state is controlled using measurements and conditional unitary operations-are a powerful paradigm for state preparation and quantum error correction tasks. They can support two types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Thomas Iadecola , Justin H. Wilson , J. H. Pixley

Finite-size critical systems defined on a parallel plate geometry of finite extent along one single ($z$) direction with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions at $z=0,L$ are analyzed in momentum space. We introduce a modified…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-02 Messias V. S. Santos , José B. da Silva , Marcelo M. Leite

Quantum critical behavior in heavy electron materials is typically brought about by changes in pressure or magnetic field. In this communication, we develop a simple unified model for the combined influence of pressure and magnetic field on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-13 Yi-feng Yang , David Pines