统计力学
The Euler buckling of rods is a long-studied mechanical instability, and it remains relevant to this day, as the constituent components in many biological and physical systems are linear polymers, such as microtubules or carbon nanotubes.…
In most driven-dissipative sandpile models, the dynamics of the system reaches a critical stationary state. This state displays organization features such as a power-law avalanche spectrum and hyperuniformity, but these features often…
The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations contain viscous dissipation but no thermal noise. I show, using a topological argument based on Poincar\'e's lemma, that the fluctuation-dissipation relation for the full nonlinear dynamics can be…
We study the two-dimensional $q$-state clock model in the presence of an additional $p$-fold symmetry-breaking crystalline field using Monte Carlo simulations. While the pure clock model exhibits Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless (BKT)…
Optimization problems such as the NP-complete 3-SAT provide an important benchmark for the difficult task of finding ground-states in strongly correlated many-body systems with rugged energy landscapes. The study of random 3-SAT problems as…
We study the out-of-equilibrium spinodal-like behavior of three-dimensional (3D) $q$-state Potts models (for $q\ge 3$), observed when the temperature is quenched across the first-order transition (FOT) point $\beta_{\rm fo}=T_{\rm…
We study conductance fluctuations in random resistor networks with hyperuniform bond disorder, where the fluctuations of the number of bonds present in a test volume $V$ scale as $V^{-a}$ with $a > 1/2$. Since small changes in the…
The precise location of the liquid-vapor critical point in aluminum has remained elusive for decades, with reported critical temperatures spanning nearly 4000 K. Here we resolve this long-standing uncertainty by combining deep potential…
The counterintuitive Mpemba effect, wherein a hotter system cools faster, critically lacks a general macroscopic theory. Here, starting from linear irreversible thermodynamics, we formulate a generalized Newton's cooling law,…
These are the notes for the 4.5-hour course with the same title that I delivered in August 2025 at the Les Houches summer school ``Exact Solvability and Quantum Information''. In these notes I pedagogically introduce the setting of…
We introduce a novel operator to describe a random walk process on a simplicial complex. Walkers are allowed to wonder across simplices of various dimensions, bridging nodes to edges, and edges to triangles, via a nested organization that…
Stochastic renewal processes are ubiquitous across physics, biology, and the social sciences. Here, we show that continuous-time renewal dynamics can naturally produce a mixed discrete-continuous structure, with a macroscopic fraction of…
The generic shape of the single-time and two-time correlators in non-equilibrium phase-ordering kinetics with ${z}=2$ is obtained from the co-variance of the four-point response functions. Their non-equilibrium scaling forms follow from a…
The scaling functions of single-time and two-time correlators in systems undergoing non-equilibrium critical dynamics with dynamical exponent ${z}=2$ are predicted from a new time-dependent non-equilibrium representation of the…
State transitions are fundamental in biological systems but challenging to observe directly. Here, we present the first single-cell observation of state transitions in a synthetic bacterial genetic circuit. Using a mother machine, we…
While phases and phase transitions are conventionally described by local order parameters in real space, we present a unified framework characterizing the phase transition through the geometry of configuration space defined by the…
Higher-order interactions have recently emerged as a promising framework for describing new dynamical phenomena in heterogeneous contagion processes. However, a fundamental open question is how to understand their contribution from the…
Matrix product ansatz (MPA) is a powerful framework for constructing exact steady state weights of one dimensional non-equilibrium stochastic processes; but its generalization to higher dimensions is limited. Here, we introduce the MPA…
We study persistent random walk with time dependent velocity reversal probabilities and identify a criterion for a non-equilibrium dynamical transition. As a representative example, we consider a power law reversal probability $p(t)\sim…
Determining the dynamics of interacting integrable many-particle quantum systems at finite times after homogeneous quantum quenches is a long-standing challenge. We present a Monte Carlo sampling scheme that numerically evaluates the…