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A phase transition is the transformation of a thermodynamic system from one phase or state of matter to another one by heat transfer. The term is most commonly used to describe transitions between solid, liquid and gaseous states of matter, and, in rare cases, plasma. A phase of a thermodynamic system and the states of matter have uniform physical properties. During a phase transition of a given medium certain properties of the medium change, often discontinuously, as a result of the change of some external condition, such as temperature, pressure, or others. For example, a liquid may become gas upon heating to the boiling point, resulting in an abrupt change in volume. The measurement of the external conditions at which the transformation occurs is termed the phase transition. Phase transitions are common in nature and used today in many technologies.
Examples of phase transitions include:
Subir Sachdev is Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard University specializing in condensed matter. He is known for his research on quantum phase transitions, and for a textbook on the subject. In particular, he is famous for exploiting a connection between the electronic properties of materials near a quantum phase transition and the quantum theory of black holes.
Sachdev was educated in India before attending MIT and Harvard, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics. He held professional positions at Bell Labs (1985–1987) and at Yale University (1987–2005), where he was a Professor of Physics, before returning to Harvard. He currently holds visiting positions at various universities.
Juan Maldacena discovered the AdS/CFT correspondence of string theory in 1997. In 2007, Sachdev, along with Christopher Herzog, Pavel Kovtun and Dam Thanh Son first used the AdS/CFT correspondence of string theory to study quantum critical points in condensed matter physics such as the superfluid-insulator transition in the 2+1 dimensional boson Hubbard model. With Sean Hartnoll and Markus Müller, Sachdev developed related methods to apply to "strange metal" phases at generic particle densities. These condensed matter systems share the crucial property of having no quasiparticle excitations, and so their dynamics cannot be described by extensions of the Boltzmann equation ubiquitous in other systems.
Phase or phases may refer to:
This is a video of part of a lecture course in thermal and statistical physics I taught at the Catholic University of Korea in 2013. This lecture includes: - the three phases of matter (0:01) - definition of latent heat (6:25) - phase transition terminology (12:48) - a typical phase diagram (15:55) - triple point and critical point (19:00) - supercritical fluids (23:32) - supercritical carbon dioxide video (25:56)
eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Lecture Series on Classical Physics by Prof.V.Balakrishnan, Department of Physics, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
2014 Salam Distinguished Lecturer explains "Quantum Phase Transitions"
Benjamin Yellen, professor of materials science and mechanical engineering at Duke University, explains how his laboratory uses colloidal particles to explore how atoms behave during phase transitions, like when a liquid freezes into a solid.
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Norbert Schuch (Aachen University) Topological Phase Transitions in Tensor Networks: A Holographic Perspective QuICS Workshop on the Frontiers of Quantum Information and Computer Science (October 1, 2015) We investigate topological phases and phase transitions in the framework of tensor network models. We discuss the role of symmetries in this description, and show how it allows to relate topological phases and transitions between them to symmetry broken and symmetry protected phases exhibited by the transfer operator of the system, i.e., at the boundary. We will also discuss how topological excitations in the 2D bulk and can be understood as domain wall excitations, order parameters, and string order parameters of the symmetry broken or symmetry protected 1D boundary, respectively, and...
A phase transition is the transformation of a system from one state to another through a period of rapid change. The classical example of this is the transition between solid, liquid and gaseous states that water passes through given some change in temperature, phase transitions are another hallmark of nonlinear systems. In this module we discuss the concept in tandem with its counterpart bifurcation theory. For full courses, transcriptions and downloads please see: http://www.complexityacademy.io Twitter: https://goo.gl/Nu6Qap Facebook: https://goo.gl/ggxGMT LinkedIn:https://goo.gl/3v1vwF Transcription excerpt: Bifurcations & Phase transitions As we have previously discussed the qualitative dynamic behavior of nonlinear systems is largely defined by the positive and negative feedback l...
Landau Ginzburg theory is introduced. Special attention is given to the Ginzburg criterion.
PROGRAM: THE 8TH ASIAN WINTER SCHOOL ON STRINGS, PARTICLES AND COSMOLOGY DATES: Thursday 09 Jan, 2014 - Saturday 18 Jan, 2014 VENUE: Blue Lily Hotel, Puri PROGRAM LINK: http://www.icts.res.in/program/asian8 The 8th Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology is part of a series that is being organized annually in turn by Korea, Japan, China and India. The school will be held in Puri, India, as a program of the International Center For Theoretical Sciences, TIFR. The school is intended to be an advanced one. While String Theory is the primary focus, it also aims to provide a broader perspective emphasising that String theory is a useful framework for the basic questions of Particle physics and Cosmology and for the study of strongly coupled systems. The school is intended to ...