Related papers: Phase Transitions
Review of selected fundamental topics on the interaction between phase transformations, fracture, and other structural changes in inelastic materials is presented. It mostly focuses on the concepts developed in the author's group over last…
Physical processes related to cosmological first-order phase transitions are discussed and reviewed in this introductory part of dissertation. I first describe cosmological phase transitions on a general level, concentrating on bubble…
This paper describes some strategies used in a `transition' course. Such courses help undergraduate mathematics majors move from learning procedures to learning to function as critical mathematicians in order to understand and work with…
Lectures given at the summer school on Algebraic Groups, Goettingen, June 27 - July 15 2005
Brief introduction to the theory of surface phase transitions at planar interfaces, such as wetting phenomena (in Czech).
In this PhD thesis, I investigate the properties of symmetry-breaking dynamical phase transitions that manifest in the fluctuations of time-integrated observables within classical systems. In particular, I analyze how these phase…
These lecture notes were prepared for a special topics course in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington, Seattle. They comprise the first eight chapters of a book currently in progress.
The potential for complex systems to exhibit tipping points in which an equilibrium state undergoes a sudden and often irreversible shift is well established, but prediction of these events using standard forecast modeling techniques is…
These lectures, presented at the 2022 TASI summer school, give an introductory overview of first-order phase transitions in the early Universe, baryogenesis, and the resulting gravitational wave phenomenology. We introduce thermal field…
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory is the first accelerator specifically constructed for the study of very hot and dense nuclear matter. At sufficiently high temperature, nuclear matter is…
These lecture notes provide an introduction to Langevin processes and briefly discuss some interesting properties and simple applications. They compile material presented at the "School of Physics and Mathematics Without Frontiers"…
This is a report of the concluding talk presented at the International Symposium on QCD Corrections and New Physics which was held during October 27-29, 1997 at Mielparque Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. The report will be published in the…
These proceedings summarize my plenary talk at Quark Matter 2011 with a focus on the future perspectives of the low energy programs at RHIC, FAIR, NICA and CERN.
This review article takes stock of the progress made in understanding the phase transition in hot nuclei and highlights the coherence of observed signatures
This is a collection of lecture notes from three lectures given by Alexei Kitaev at the 2008 Les Houches summer school "Exact methods in low-dimensional physics and quantum computing." They provide a pedagogical introduction to topological…
Lectures discuss applications of semiclassical methods based on instantons to vacuum structure (chiral symmetry breaking), hadronic structure (various correlation functions), and high energy collisions of hadrons and heavy ions. We discuss…
The paper (as posted originally) contains several errors. It has been subsequently split into two papers, the corrected (and accepted for publication) versions appear in the archive as papers cs.CC/0503082 and cs.DM/0503083.
The present notes contain the material of the lectures given by the author at the summer school on ``Modular Forms and their Applications'' at the Sophus Lie Conference Center in the summer of 2004.
The authors of the Letter PRL 89, 017004 (2002) predict nontrivial flux lattice structures in UPt3 in vicinity of the superconducting transition between the A and B phases for low magnetic fields, an important conclusion for motivating…
This article is a summary of four introductory lectures on ``Neutrino Experiments,'' given at the 2006 TASI summer school. The purposes were to sketch out the present questions in neutrino physics and to discuss the experimental challenges…