Critical transitions are abrupt shifts in the state of ecosystems, the climate, financial and economic systems or other complex dynamical systems that...

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

Other examples include the liquid–liquid critical points in mixtures, and the ferromagnet–paramagnet transition (Curie temperature) in the absence of an...

stability, see synergetics. Complex systems may exhibit critical transitions Critical transitions are abrupt shifts in the state of ecosystems, the climate...

Critical exponents describe the behavior of physical quantities near continuous phase transitions. It is believed, though not proven, that they are universal...

ferromagnetic phase transition) described by critical exponents, universality, fractal behaviour, and ergodicity breaking. Critical phenomena take place...

analysis of phase transitions in physics, a critical dimension is the dimensionality of space at which the character of the phase transition changes. Below...

Superconductor–insulator transition – Type of quantum phase transition Quantum phases – Quantum states of matter at zero temperature Quantum critical point – Term...

physics, critical opalescence refers to the dramatic increase in scattering of light in the region of a continuous, or second-order, phase transition. Near...

Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena is a 20-volume series of books, comprising review articles on phase transitions and critical phenomena, published...

mathematical theory of percolation, a percolation transition is characterized by a set of universal critical exponents, which describe the fractal properties...

like ovules. The transition to flowering is one of the major phase changes that a plant makes during its life cycle. The transition must take place at...

Gender transition is the process of affirming and expressing one's internal sense of gender, rather than the sex assigned to them at birth. It is a recommended...

temperatures to unpaired vortices and anti-vortices at some critical temperature. The transition is named for condensed matter physicists Vadim Berezinskii...

the critical temperature to 92 K (−181 °C), which was important because liquid nitrogen could then be used as a refrigerant. Such a high transition temperature...

quantum critical point is a point in the phase diagram of a material where a continuous phase transition takes place at absolute zero. A quantum critical point...

Transition metals in the periodic table In chemistry, a transition metal (or transition element) is a chemical element in the d-block of the periodic...

The glass–liquid transition, or glass transition, is the gradual and reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline...

indicators of crises and methods were proposed for anticipating critical transitions. Among them, one statistical indicator of crisis, a simultaneous...

regime shifts are associated with a critical or bifurcation point, they may also be referred to as critical transitions. Scholars have been interested in...

and later by Van Ingen have shown that transition occurs when the amplification factor (being the critical amplification factor) equals 9. For clean...

to study and understand phase transitions and critical phenomena. Removal of nodes or edges leads to a critical transition where the network breaks into...

Gender-critical feminism, also known as trans-exclusionary radical feminism or TERFism, is an ideology or movement that opposes what it refers to as "gender...

transition that takes place at absolute zero Criticality (status), the state in which a nuclear chain reaction is self-sustaining Prompt criticality,...

Critical radius is the minimum particle size from which an aggregate is thermodynamically stable. In other words, it is the lowest radius formed by atoms...

"From bottom-up approaches to levels of organization and extended critical transitions". Frontiers in Physiology. 3: 232. doi:10.3389/fphys.2012.00232....

phase transitions in the early universe, and Wojciech H. Zurek, who related the number of defects it creates to the critical exponents of the transition and...

state to a quasi-ordered state below some critical temperature, called the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. In the case of a discrete lattice of spins...

before and after a phase transition; the order parameter is often zero above some critical temperature and non-zero below the critical temperature. In a simple...

Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas state, without passing through the liquid state. The verb form of sublimation...