Puzzling effects Two quantum simulations have revealed unexpected behaviour at quantum phase transitions. (Courtesy: ...

Phase transitions, shifts between different states of matter, are widely explored physical phenomena. So far, these ...

The underlying physical mechanism of crystallization is a phase transition at which the static long-range periodic order characteristic of crystals emerges — rigidity plays no role and is ...

Phase transitions and critical phenomena are the changes of a system from one regime or state to another exhibiting very different properties, and the unusual effects that occur on the boundary ...

This suggested the presence of electronic phase separation ... revealed that the insulator-to-metal transition was driven by charge transfer at the interface, a result of the nontrivial ...