Tag: phase transitions

Researchers have derived a swarm optimization algorithm from the Landau theory of phase transitions, using spontaneous symmetry breaking to govern ...

Theoretical physicists have demonstrated that nonlinear electrodynamics suppresses competing s-wave and p-wave condensates while causing spontaneous charge accumulation outside the ...

Post-deposition annealing and environmental exposure reveal phase-dependent defect dynamics and irreversible radiative shifts in magnetron-sputtered antimony selenide thin films.

Synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiments up to 22.3 gigapascals have revealed three distinct high-pressure phase transitions in the rare cyclosilicate mineral ...

A theoretical study predicts two tri-critical quantum Lifshitz points in d-wave altermagnetic superconductors, one field-driven and one altermagnetism-driven, with distinct ...

Researchers demonstrated that multi-component osmolyte-based deep eutectic solvents exhibit highly tunable thermal phase transitions and significant melting temperature depressions governed ...

A one-dimensional model with nonlocal fractional interactions reproduces key correlation features of the two-dimensional BKT transition, but lacks the conventional ...

A new agent-based framework derives an empirical criterion that predicts with high accuracy whether public discussions will converge, polarise, or ...

Researchers have created cholesterol-based liquid crystal dimers whose supramolecular helices completely reverse their handedness with temperature while the molecular stereochemistry ...

A HKUST-led team has developed a unified theory that determines when phases of matter are truly distinct, resolving the puzzle ...