related fields like physics and biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another...

a two-step phase transition ― a solid-to-gas transition (sublimation in a more precise definition) followed by a gas-to-solid transition (deposition)...

Deposition is the phase transition in which gas transforms into solid without passing through the liquid phase. Deposition is a thermodynamic process....

A cosmological phase transition is a physical process, whereby the overall state of matter changes together across the whole universe. The success of the...

quantum phase transition (QPT) is a phase transition between different quantum phases (phases of matter at zero temperature). Contrary to classical phase transitions...

equilibrium or phase boundaries, which refer to lines that mark conditions under which multiple phases can coexist at equilibrium. Phase transitions occur along...

properties of a material through its glass transition, the transition is not considered a phase transition; rather it is a phenomenon extending over a...

In quantum optics, a superradiant phase transition is a phase transition that occurs in a collection of fluorescent emitters (such as atoms), between a...

existence of a proton-ordered ferroelectric phase. However, they could not conclusively prove that a phase transition had taken place, and Onsager pointed out...

quantum order. The transitions between different MBL phases and between MBL and thermalizing phases are novel dynamical phase transitions whose properties...

plasma Quantum phase transition, a phase transformation between different quantum phases Quantum Hall transitions, a quantum phase transition that occurred...

long range entanglements) cannot change into each other without a phase transition. Various topologically ordered states have interesting properties,...

creating the possibility of different structural phases. The model allows the identification of phase transitions as a simplified model of reality. The two-dimensional...

A phase-change material (PCM) is a substance which releases/absorbs sufficient energy at phase transition to provide useful heat or cooling. Generally...

Rapid phase transition or RPT is an explosive boiling phenomenon realized in liquefied natural gas (LNG) incidents, in which LNG vaporizes violently upon...

system, during a constant-temperature process—usually a first-order phase transition, like melting or condensation. Latent heat can be understood as hidden...

critical value, the Dicke model shows a mean-field phase transition to a superradiant phase. This transition belongs to the Ising universality class and was...

The G1/S transition is a stage in the cell cycle at the boundary between the G1 phase, in which the cell grows, and the S phase, during which DNA is replicated...

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe...

characteristics cause this phase transition to play an important role in geodynamical models. Cold downwelling material might pond on this transition. There is another...

return phase transitions (S → F, J → S, and J → F transitions shown in Figure 9) is also possible. To further illustrate S → J phase transitions: in Kerner’s...

(BKT) transition is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. It is a transition from bound vortex-antivortex...

Thermotropic LCs exhibit a phase transition into the LC phase as temperature changes. Lyotropic LCs exhibit phase transitions as a function of both temperature...

In quantum gravity, the Hawking–Page phase transition is phase transition between AdS black holes with radiation and thermal AdS. Stephen Hawking and Don...

moganite from 100 to 1,354 K (−173 to 1,081 °C) has revealed a reversible phase transition from space group I2/a to Imab at approximately 570 K (297 °C). The...

Photoinduced phase transition is a technique used in solid-state physics. It is a process to the nonequilibrium phases generated from an equilibrium by...

the absorption of heat by the sample as it undergoes the endothermic phase transition from solid to liquid. Likewise, as the sample undergoes exothermic...

superconducting transition, these vortices can become frozen into a disordered but stationary phase known as a "vortex glass". Below this vortex glass transition temperature...

several phase transitions into less ordered states. Examples for such an order-disorder transition are: the melting of ice: solid–liquid transition, loss...

one-dimensional Ising model, the one-dimensional XY model has no phase transitions at finite temperature. The same computation for periodic boundary...