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Physics, Fluids & Plasmas
Milan Zukovic, Georgii Kalagov
Summary: We investigate the impact of competing pairwise higher-order interactions (HOI) on the critical behavior of the XY model. Our findings reveal that the critical properties of this generalized model can deviate significantly from the standard XY model, depending on whether the number of HOI terms is odd or even. Odd numbers of HOI terms lead to two consecutive phase transitions, while even numbers of HOI terms only result in two phase transitions under certain conditions.
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Puspa Upreti, Matthew Krogstad, Charlotte Haley, Mihai Anitescu, Vishwas Rao, Lekh Poudel, Omar Chmaissem, Stephan Rosenkranz, Raymond Osborn
Summary: The paper investigates structural correlations in the quasiskutterudites using single crystal x-ray diffraction and finds temperature-independent local atomic displacements below the transition, which persist to well above the transition, indicating order-disorder behavior.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
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Physics, Fluids & Plasmas
Mauro Sellitto
Summary: We investigate the phase behavior of a two-dimensional athermal lattice gas and find that it undergoes an ordering phase transition with preferential sublattice occupation at large chemical potential. Although there is an apparent discontinuity in particle density and entropy near the transition point, the order parameter and fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities do not scale with the system volume.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Adam Nahum
Summary: In this study, it is shown that the quantum spin impurity coupled to a gapless free field exhibits an annihilation between two nontrivial renormalization group fixed points at a critical value of the interaction exponent. This clarifies the phase diagram of the Bose-Kondo model and highlights its role as a toy model for fixed point annihilation and quasiuniversality in higher dimensions.
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Manuel Weber, Matthias Vojta
Summary: This study presents high-accuracy quantum Monte Carlo results for the annihilation of two intermediate-coupling renormalization-group (RG) fixed points in the SU(2)-symmetric S = 1/2 spin-boson model. The collision and annihilation of the RG fixed points at s* = 0.6540(2) are revealed through detailed scaling analysis, providing direct numerical evidence for the disappearance of the critical phase.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Anton Khvalyuk, Mikhail Feigel'man
Summary: We developed an analytic theory of inhomogeneous superconducting pairing in strongly disordered materials close to the superconducting-insulator transition. Our key finding is that the distribution function of the order parameter depends crucially on the effective number of nearest neighbors, with the solution valid for both large and small values of this parameter. The analytic results are supported by numerical data, showing good agreement between them.
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Haoying Sun, Jiahui Gu, Yongqiang Li, Tula R. Paudel, Di Liu, Jierong Wang, Yipeng Zang, Chengyi Gu, Jiangfeng Yang, Wenjie Sun, Zhengbin Gu, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Junming Liu, Houbing Huang, Di Wu, Yuefeng Nie
Summary: By applying uniaxial strain, we achieved pure in-plane polarized ferroelectricity in ultrathin SrTiO3 membranes, which allows for the investigation of ferroelectric size effects without the interference of the depolarization field. Our study reveals that the stability of ferroelectricity is influenced by the thickness-dependent dipole-dipole interactions within the transverse Ising model.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Gan Liu, Tianyu Qiu, Kuanyu He, Yizhou Liu, Dongjing Lin, Zhen Ma, Zhentao Huang, Wenna Tang, Jie Xu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Libo Gao, Jinsheng Wen, Jun-Ming Liu, Binghai Yan, Xiaoxiang Xi
Summary: In this study, electrical switching of ferro-rotational domain states in the charge-density-wave phases of nanometre-thick 1T-TaS2 crystals is demonstrated. Despite the lack of coupling between the electric field and the ferroic order due to symmetry mismatch, the electric field drives domain wall propagation, resulting in reversible, durable, and non-volatile isothermal state switching.
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
(2023)
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Peter Lajko, Ferenc Igloi
Summary: The antiferromagnetic quantum Ising chain exhibits a complex phase transition process, involving the critical point of the transverse Ising model, and shows mixed order phase transition characteristics under certain conditions.
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
J. G. Downs, N. D. Smith, K. K. Mandadapu, J. P. Garrahan, M. Smith
Summary: Experimental investigation shows that the presence of interfacial tension between a granular liquid and crystal phase on a surface with periodically spaced dimples alters the order of the phase transition. The interplay of boundary inelasticity and geometry controls which phase, either granular crystal or granular fluid, makes contact with the edge. This induced wetting phenomenon has important consequences for the spatial separation of coexisting phases.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sungho Do, Chanseok Lee, Taehyun Lee, Do-Nyun Kim, Yongdae Shin
Summary: Synthetic condensates built with DNA as building blocks through phase separation and programmable intermolecular interactions show potential in controlling properties and functions. These condensates can accelerate DNA reactions and logic gate operations, bringing us closer to the realization of advanced functions resembling living systems.
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Mechanics
Joydeep Chakravarty, Diksha Jain
Summary: This work focuses on defining and calculating critical exponents associated with higher order thermodynamic phase transitions, categorized into those with or without a local order parameter. The Landau theory is utilized to compute critical exponents for phase transitions involving a local order parameter, while the Wilsonian renormalization group is used to derive scaling forms for observables near criticality and to establish scaling relationships between critical exponents. The fixed points of the renormalization group flow are determined using the one-loop beta function, and critical exponents around these fixed points are calculated for third and fourth order phase transitions.
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Galo Jaime Paez Fajardo, Sebastian A. Howard, Egor Evlyukhin, Matthew J. Wahila, Wasim Raja Mondal, Mateusz Zuba, Jos E. Boschker, Hanjong Paik, Darrell G. Schlom, Jerzy T. Sadowski, Samuel A. Tenney, Benjamin Reinhart, Wei-Cheng Lee, Louis F. J. Piper
Summary: Studying the metal to insulator transition of NbO2 using temperature-dependent X-ray spectroscopy, it was found that dimerization leads to the insulating phase, while an oxygen rich surface reconstruction at the topmost layers remains unchanged regardless of temperature.
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
(2021)
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Physics, Fluids & Plasmas
Kota Yoshiyama, Koji Hukushima
Summary: The phase transitions of the J(1) - J(2) Ising model on a square lattice were studied using the higher-order tensor renormalization group method. The results indicate that the region of the first-order transition is slightly narrower than in previous studies and the region where the critical exponent changes does not necessarily coincide with the Ashkin-Teller region.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Takashi Tayama, Yusuke Kani, Momota Imai, Yuta Kanai, Hitoshi Sugawara
Summary: The results of magnetization, thermal expansion, and magnetostriction measurements of CeOs4Sb12 reveal magnetic anisotropy and phase differences in the ordered phases A, B, and C. The magnetization at low temperatures in high magnetic fields shows significant anisotropy, with the ratio M[100] > M[110] > M[111] consistent with the xe002;67 quartet. The comparison between experimental results and numerical calculations suggests that the C phase is an antiferroquadrupolar ordered state, mainly influenced by antiferro-octupolar interaction.