Phase transitions in combinatorial problems have recently been shown to be useful in locating "hard" instances of combinatorial problems. The connection between computational complexity and the existence of phase transitions has been addressed in S...
Zero temperature phase transitions not only occur in the bulk of quantum systems, but also at boundaries or impurities. We review recent work on quantum phase transitions in impurity models that are generalizations of the standard Kondo model descr...
The Mott metal-insulator transition in the two-band Hubbard model in infinite dimensions is studied by using the linearized dynamical mean-field theory recently developed by Bulla and Potthoff. The phase boundary of the metal-insulator transition i...
Both IrV and RhV crystallize in the alpha-IrV structure, with a transition to the higher symmetry L1_0 structure at high temperature, or with the addition of excess Ir or Rh. Here we present evidence that this transition is driven by the lowering of...
We introduce new quantitative approaches to study sleep-stage transitions with the goal of addressing the two following questions: (i) Can the new approaches provide more information on the structure of sleep-stage transitions? (ii) How does sleep...
Predictability of flow is examined in a barotropic vorticity model that admits low frequency regime transitions between zonal and dipolar states. Such transitions in the model were first studied by Bouchet and Simonnet (2009) and are reminiscent of r...
In order to actually see the hadron-quark transition happening in a neutron star, we point out and study two static conditions (the transition hadronic density must be lower than the neutron star maximum hadronic density; the neutron star mass at t...
A new two-pole approximation, which allows to describe the transition from an insulating state to a metallic one at increase of bandwidth, and also the observable in some compounds transition from a metalic state to an insulating one with increasin...
I sketch how long wavelength modes of the pion field can be amplified during the QCD phase transition. If nature had been kinder, and had made the pion mass significantly less than the critical temperature for the transition, then this phenomenon w...
Transitional epithelium is a type of stratified epithelium. Transitional epithelium is a type of tissue that changes shape in response to stretching (stretchable
Single sheets of hexagonal boron nitride on transition metals provide a model system for single layer dielectrics. The progress in the understanding of h-BN layers on transition metals of the last 10 years are shortly reviewed. Particular emphasis...
We study the effect of the Hawking-Page phase transition on the Page Curve for the BTZ black hole coupled to two thermal baths and with the inclusion of island. The Page Curve is shown by us when the Hawking-Page phase transition happens. The results...
In [A. Jackson, Explaining the ubiquity of phase transitions in decision problems (2025), arXiv:2501.14569], I established that phase transitions are always present in a large subset of decision problems over even-sized alphabets, explaining -- in pa...
Climate-neutral by 2050. That’s what the Paris Agreement set out for the EU back in 2015. Now in full swing, the energy transition calls on many industries to do their part. But Uniper wants to do more; the energy company wants to lead the way and actively shape the transition, w…
We study the orbital stability of action ground-states of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation over two particular cases of metric graphs, the $\mathcal{T}$ and the tadpole graphs. We show the existence of stability transitions near the $L^2$-critical...
Using a dynamic variant of the Vicsek model, we show that emergence of a crush from an orderly moving human crowd is a non-equilibrium first order phase transition. We also show that this transition can be reversed by modifying the dynamics of a few...