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We study the nonequilibrium phase transition in a model of aggregation of masses allowing for diffusion, aggregation on contact and fragmentation. The model undergoes a dynamical phase transition in all dimensions. The steady state mass…

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We establish a set of nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions in the Ising model driven under monochromatic nonadiabatic modulation of the transverse field. We show that besides the Ising-like critical behavior, the system exhibits an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-03 V. M. Bastidas , C. Emary , G. Schaller , T. Brandes

We analyze the probability distribution for entropy production rates of trajectories evolving on a class of out-of-equilibrium kinetic networks. These networks can serve as simple models for driven dynamical systems, which are of particular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-05 Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan , Todd R. Gingrich , Phillip L. Geissler

The traditional concept of phase transitions has, in recent years, been widened in a number of interesting ways. The concept of a topological phase transition separating phases with a different ground state topology, rather than phases of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 N. Sedlmayr

A class of nonequilibrium models with short-range interactions and sequential updates is presented. The models describe one dimensional growth processes which display a roughening transition between a smooth and a rough phase. This…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Uri Alon , Martin Evans , Haye Hinrichsen , David Mukamel

The nonequilibrium dynamic phase transitions in ferromagnetic models (Ising, XY and Heisenberg) are reviewed on the basis of very recent work in this field.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Muktish Acharyya

Depinning and nonequilibrium transitions within sliding states in systems driven over quenched disorder arise across a wide spectrum of size scales ranging from atomic friction at the nanoscale, flux motion in type-II superconductors at the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-22 Cs. Sándor , A. Libál , C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Quantum theory provides an extensive framework for the description of the equilibrium properties of quantum matter. Yet experiments in quantum simulators have now opened up a route towards generating quantum states beyond this equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-24 Markus Heyl

The majority of dynamical studies in power systems focus on the high voltage transmission grids where models consider large generators interacting with crude aggregations of individual small loads. However, new phenomena have been observed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-12 Charlie Duclut , Scott Backhaus , Michael Chertkov

The steady state shock formation in processes like nonconserving asymmetric simple exclusion processes in varied situations is shown to be a nonequilibrium critical phenomenon. The diverging length scales and the quantitative description of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sutapa Mukherji , Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

A general procedure for studying finite-N effects in quantum phase transitions of finite systems is presented and applied to the critical-point dynamics of nuclei undergoing a shape-phase transition of second-order (continuous), and of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Leviatan

We establish a set of nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions in the Dicke model by considering a monochromatic nonadiabatic modulation of the atom-field coupling. For weak driving the system exhibits a set of sidebands which allow the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 V. M. Bastidas , C. Emary , B. Regler , T. Brandes

In recent years, quantum phase transitions have attracted the interest of both theorists and experimentalists in condensed matter physics. These transitions, which are accessed at zero temperature by variation of a non-thermal control…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Vojta

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a hallmark of equilibrium systems, typically characterized by a single critical point separating ordered and disordered phases. Recently, a novel class of non-equilibrium phase transitions was uncovered…

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Dynamical phase transitions can occur in isolated quantum systems that are brought out of equilibrium by sudden parameter changes. We discuss the characterization of such dynamical phase transitions based on the statistics of produced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pietro Smacchia , Michael Knap , Eugene Demler , Alessandro Silva

Nonreciprocal interactions are widely observed in nonequilibrium systems, from biological or sociological dynamics to open quantum systems. Despite the ubiquity of nonreciprocity, its impact on phase transitions is not fully understood. In…

An asymmetric exclusion process comprising positive particles, negative particles and vacancies is introduced. The model is defined on a ring and the dynamics does not conserve the number of particles. We solve the steady state exactly and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. Evans , Y. Kafri , E. Levine , D. Mukamel

We discuss the boundary critical behaviors of two dimensional quantum phase transitions with fractionalized degrees of freedom in the bulk, motivated by the fact that usually it is the $1d$ boundary that is exposed and can be conveniently…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 Xiao-Chuan Wu , Yichen Xu , Hao Geng , Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

Phase separation dynamics with an initially non-uniform concentration are studied. Critical and off-critical behavior is observed simultaneously. A mechanism for an expanding phase separated region is demonstrated and the time dependence of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. M. Lacasta , J. M. Sancho , Chuck Yeung

Real-world non-autonomous systems are open, out-of-equilibrium systems that evolve in and are driven by temporally varying environments. Such systems can show multiple timescale and transient dynamics together with transitions to very…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-07-12 Klaus Lehnertz