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Non-reciprocal systems can be thought of as disobeying Newtons third law - an action does not cause an equal and opposite reaction. In recent years there has been a dramatic rise in interest towards such systems. On a fundamental level,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-06 Sergei Shmakov , Glasha Osipycheva , Peter B. Littlewood

Many-variable differential equations with random coefficients provide powerful models for the dynamics of many interacting species in ecology. These models are known to exhibit a dynamical phase transition from a phase where population…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-19 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Guy Bunin

Scaling ideas and renormalization group approaches proved crucial for a deep understanding and classification of critical phenomena in thermal equilibrium. Over the past decades, these powerful conceptual and mathematical tools were…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-29 Uwe C. Täuber

In this work we develop a general formalism that categorizes the action of broken scale invariance on the non-equilibrium dynamics of non-relativistic quantum systems. This approach is equally applicable to both strongly and weakly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-11 Jeff Maki , Li-Ming Zhao , Fei Zhou

Recent measurements of durations of non-equilibrium processes provide valuable information on microscopic mechanisms and energetics. Comprehensive theory for corresponding experiments so far is well developed for single-particle systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-04 David Voráč , Philipp Maass , Artem Ryabov

Newton's third law, actio = reactio, is a foundational statement of classical mechanics. However, in natural and living systems, this law appears to be routinely violated for constituents interacting in a nonequilibrium environment. Here,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-30 Yu-Jen Chiu , Ahmad K. Omar

Nonreciprocal interactions in many-body systems lead to time-dependent states, commonly observed in biological, chemical, and ecological systems. The stability of these states in the thermodynamic limit and the critical behavior of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yael Avni , Michel Fruchart , David Martin , Daniel Seara , Vincenzo Vitelli

We present the results of analytical and numerical studies of a one-dimensional nonlocal and nonlinear diffusion equation describing non-equilibrium processes ranging from aggregation phenomena to cooperation of individuals. We study a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabio Cecconi , Jayanth R. Banavar , Amos Maritan

Biochemistry, ecology, and neuroscience are examples of prominent fields aiming at describing interacting systems that exhibit non-trivial couplings to complex, ever-changing environments. We have recently shown that linear interactions and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-10 Giorgio Nicoletti , Daniel Maria Busiello

A nonequilibrium system of locally interacting elements in a lattice with an absorbing order-disorder phase transition is studied under the effect of additional interacting fields. These fields are shown to produce interesting effects in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-09 J. C. Gonzalez-Avella , V. M. Eguiluz , M. G. Cosenza , K. Klemm , J. L. Herrera , M. San Miguel

In this paper we investigate peculiarities of phase transition high-symmetry - incommensurate phase in inhomogeneous systems. We obtain the nonlinear dispersion law and then present a renormalization group analysis of phase transitions in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 B. R. Gadjiev

Many active matter systems consist of different particle types that interact via nonreciprocal couplings. Such nonreciprocal couplings can lead to the spontaneous emergence of time-dependent states that break parity-time symmetry. On the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-29 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We propose a theoretical scheme to realize nonreciprocal transition between two energy levels that can not coupled directly. Suppose they are coupled indirectly by two auxiliary levels with a cyclic four-level configuration, and the four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Xun-Wei Xu , Hai-Quan Shi , Ai-Xi Chen

We investigate the behavior of nonequilibrium phase transitions under the influence of disorder that locally breaks the symmetry between two symmetrical macroscopic absorbing states. In equilibrium systems such "random-field" disorder…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-23 Hatem Barghathi , Thomas Vojta

We identify a new universality class of phase transitions that arises in non-normal systems, challenging the classical view that transitions require eigenvalue instabilities. In traditional bifurcation theory, critical phenomena emerge when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-10 Virgile Troude , Didier Sornette

We study incompressible systems of motile particles with alignment interactions. Unlike their compressible counterparts, in which the order-disorder (i.e., moving to static) transition, tuned by either noise or number density, is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-09 Leiming Chen , John Toner , Chiu Fan Lee

Non-reciprocal systems exhibit diverse dynamical phases whose character depends on the type and degree of non-reciprocity. In this study, we theoretically investigate dynamical structures in a mixture of non-reciprocally aligning polar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-20 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

One possible framework to interpret the irreversibility transition observed in periodically driven colloidal suspensions is that of a non-equilibrium phase transition towards an absorbing reversible state at low amplitude of the driving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-30 Elsen Tjhung , Ludovic Berthier

Nonreciprocal active matter systems typically feature an asymmetric role among interacting agents, such as a pursuer-evader relationship. We propose a multi-species nonreciprocal active matter model that is invariant under permutations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Chul-Ung Woo , Heiko Rieger , Jae Dong Noh

We study the nonequilibrium phase transition in the one-dimensional contact process with quenched spatial disorder by means of large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations for times up to $10^9$ and system sizes up to $10^7$ sites. In agreement with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Vojta , Mark Dickison