and 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...

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

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

A cosmological phase transition is an overall change in the state of matter across the whole universe. The success of the Big Bang model led researchers...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

long range entanglements) cannot change into each other without a phase transition. Technically, topological order occurs at zero temperature. Various...

(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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Grokking can be understood as a phase transition during the training process. While grokking has been thought of as...

required in order for the transition from G1 phase to S phase to occur. When the cell is ready to transition into the next phase, CDKCs, cyclin D1-Cdk4 and...

corona. This phenomenon is called the temperature catastrophe and is a phase transition analogous to boiling water to make steam; in fact, solar physicists...

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

the Néel temperature. In contrast, at the transition between the ferromagnetic to the paramagnetic phases the susceptibility will diverge. In the antiferromagnetic...

suspension. Phase transitions in colloidal suspensions can be studied in real time using optical techniques, and are analogous to phase transitions in liquids...

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...

magnetic field, and a magnetic field is applied after the transition to the spin glass phase, there is a rapid initial increase to a value called the zero-field-cooled...

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

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

Ginzburg. This theory, which combined Landau's theory of second-order phase transitions with a Schrödinger-like wave equation, had great success in explaining...