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...

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

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

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

In quantum gravity, the Hawking–Page phase transition is phase transition between AdS black holes with radiation and thermal AdS. Stephen Hawking and Don...

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

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 physics, Landau–de Gennes theory describes the NI transition, i.e., phase transition between nematic liquid crystals and isotropic liquids, which is...

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

matter that is continuously connected with (can be transformed without phase transition into) both the liquid and the gaseous state. It is called supercritical...

to formulate a general theory of continuous (i.e., second-order) phase transitions. It can also be adapted to systems under externally-applied fields...

Helfrich, W. (1978). "Defect model of the smectic A-nematic phase transition". Journal de Physique. 39 (11). EDP Sciences: 1199–1208. CiteSeerX 10.1.1...

The G1/S transition is a stage in the cell cycle at the boundary between the G1 phase, in which the cell grows, and the S phase, during which DNA is replicated...

Melting, or fusion, is a physical process that results in the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid. This occurs when the internal energy...

superconducting transition, these vortices can become frozen into a disordered but stationary phase known as a "vortex glass". Below this vortex glass transition temperature...

materials do not show a single transition from solid to liquid, but rather a cascade of transitions involving new phases. The mechanical properties and...

Gabriel O.; Seridonio, Antonio C.; De Souza, Mariano (2020). "Griffiths-like phase close to the Mott transition". Journal of Applied Physics. 128 (22):...

the region of a continuous, or second-order, phase transition. Originally reported by Charles Cagniard de la Tour in 1823 in mixtures of alcohol and water...

phase transition at finite rate. It is named after Tom W. B. Kibble, who pioneered the study of domain structure formation through cosmological phase...

A democratic transition describes a phase in a country's political system as a result of an ongoing change from an authoritarian regime to a democratic...

materials, the Curie temperature can also be used to describe the phase transition between ferroelectricity and paraelectricity. In this context, the...

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

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...

containing platinide ions, such as the Zintl phases BaPt, Ba3Pt2 and Ba2Pt, being the first (unambiguous) transition metal to do so. Darmstadtium should be...

A Peierls transition or Peierls distortion is a distortion of the periodic lattice of a one-dimensional crystal. Atomic positions oscillate, so that the...

The Fréedericksz transition is a phase transition in liquid crystals produced when a sufficiently strong electric or magnetic field is applied to a liquid...

A quantum critical point is a point in the phase diagram of a material where a continuous phase transition takes place at absolute zero. A quantum critical...

In demography, demographic transition is a phenomenon and theory which refers to the historical shift from high birth rates and high death rates to low...

signal transitions are a change from one electric current, voltage, or power level to another; a change from one optical power level to another; a phase shift;...

ferromagnetic transition in the Ising model. In statistical physics, the Ising model is the simplest system exhibiting a continuous phase transition with a scalar...