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...

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

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

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

A cosmological phase transition is a physical process, whereby the overall state of matter changes together across the whole universe. The success of the...

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

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

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...

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

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

In quantum optics, a superradiant phase transition is a phase transition that occurs in a collection of fluorescent emitters (such as atoms), between a...

long range entanglements) cannot change into each other without a phase transition. Various topologically ordered states have interesting properties,...

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

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

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...

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...

(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...

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

the absorption of heat by the sample as it undergoes the endothermic phase transition from solid to liquid. Likewise, as the sample undergoes exothermic...

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

characteristics cause this phase transition to play an important role in geodynamical models. Cold downwelling material might pond on this transition. There is another...

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...

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

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

moganite from 100 to 1,354 K (−173 to 1,081 °C) has revealed a reversible phase transition from space group I2/a to Imab at approximately 570 K (297 °C). The...

the ferromagnetic state does constitute a true phase transition, the continuous nature of this transition results in only minor importance in steel heat...

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...

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

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...