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A one-dimensional model on a line of the length L is investigated, which involves particle diffusion as well as single particle annihilation. There are also creation and annihilation at the boundaries. The static and dynamical behaviors of…

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Via molecular dynamics simulations, we unveil the hysteretic nature of the jamming transition of soft repulsive frictionless spheres, as it occurs varying the volume fraction or the shear stress. In a given range of control parameters the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Massimo Pica Ciamarra , Antonio Coniglio

Under the influence of oscillatory shear, a mono-layer of frictional granular disks exhibits two dynamical phase transitions: a transition from an initially disordered state to an ordered crystalline state, and a dynamic active-absorbing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-09 Akash Ghosh , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Paul M. Chaikin , Dov Levine , Shankar Ghosh

We extend the theory of symmetry breaking dynamics in non-equilibrium second order phase transitions known as the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) to transitions where the change of phase occurs not in time, but in space. This can be due to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-28 Wojciech H. Zurek , Uwe Dorner

We report the observation of the transition from an ordered solid-like phase to a disordered liquid-like phase of a lattice of spikes on a ferrofluid surface submitted to horizontal sinusoidal vibrations. The melting transition occurs for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-05 François Boyer , Eric Falcon

Quantum criticality is the intriguing possibility offered by the laws of quantum mechanics when the wave function of a many-particle physical system is forced to evolve continuously between two distinct, competing ground states. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-18 Nicolas Roch , Serge Florens , Vincent Bouchiat , Wolfgang Wernsdorfer , Franck Balestro

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a well-understood mechanism for generating distinct phases of matter. Recently, the notion of symmetry has been broadened to include operations without inverses, leading to the concept of non-invertible…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-28 Xie Chen , Shang Liu , Da-chuan Lu , Nathanan Tantivasadakarn

Resistivity measurements are widely exploited to uncover electronic excitations and phase transitions in metallic solids. While single crystals are preferably studied to explore crystalline anisotropies, these usually cancel out in…

A simple model with a novel type of dynamics is introduced in order to investigate the emergence of self-ordered motion in systems of particles with biologically motivated interaction. In our model particles are driven with a constant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tamas Vicsek , Andras Czirok , Eshel Ben-Jacob , Inon Cohen , Ofer Sochet

Using a Ginzburg-Landau model, we study the phase transition behavior of compressible Ising systems at constant volume by varying the temperature $T$ and the applied magnetic field $h$. We show that two phases can coexist macroscopically in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Akira Onuki , Akihiko Minami

We investigate fracture and fragmentation of solids due to impact at low energies using a two-dimensional dynamical model of granular solids. Simulating collisions of two solid discs we show that, depending on the initial energy, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ferenc Kun , Hans J. Herrmann

In a physical system, changing parameters such as temperature can induce a phase transition: an abrupt change from one state of matter to another. Analogous phenomena have recently been observed in large language models. Typically, the task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Julian Arnold , Flemming Holtorf , Frank Schäfer , Niels Lörch

A master equation describing the evolution of averaged molecular state occupancies in molecular systems where alternation of molecular energy levels is caused by discrete dichotomous and trichotomous stochastic fields, is derived. This…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-12-06 E. G. Petrov , V. I. Teslenko

The numerical solutions of nonlocal and local Boltzmann kinetic equations for the simulation of central heavy ion reactions are parameterized in terms of time dependent thermodynamical variables in the Fermi liquid sense. This allows one to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Klaus Morawetz

This study examines anomalous diffusion and dynamical phase transitions in a nonlinear bouncer model with short-range interactions leading to velocity-dependent (adiabatic) collisions. By varying a control parameter, transitions between…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-17 Luiz Antonio Barreiro

In closed quantum systems, a dynamical phase transition is identified by nonanalytic behaviors of the return probability as a function of time. In this work, we study the nonunitary dynamics following quenches across exceptional points in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-29 Longwen Zhou , Qing-hai Wang , Hailong Wang , Jiangbin Gong

The study of dynamical large deviations allows for a characterization of stationary states of lattice gas models out of equilibrium conditioned on averages of dynamical observables. The application of this framework to the two-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-05 Ricardo Gutiérrez , Carlos Pérez-Espigares

In the present paper which is a sequel to [N.B. Volkov and A.M. Iskoldsky The dynamics of vortex structures and states of current: 1;[1]], the dynamics of non-equilibrium phase transitions and states of current in electrophysical systems…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 N. B. Volkov , A. M. Iskoldsky

We examine the conditions for appearance of symmetry breaking bifurcation in damped and periodically driven pendulum in the case of strong damping. We show that symmetry breaking, unlike other nonlinear phenomena, can exist at high…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Isohätälä , K. N. Alekseev , L. T. Kurki , P. Pietiläinen

We consider a randomly forced particle moving in a finite region, which rebounds inelastically with coefficient of restitution r on collision with the boundaries. We show that there is a transition at a critical value of r, r_c\equiv…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen J. Cornell , Michael R. Swift , Alan J. Bray
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