A collision between relativistic ions will sometimes, if the temperatures/energies of the particles are high enough, create a temporary state known as a quark-gluon plasma: where even individual ...

Researchers from Germany and Singapore have studied a non-equilibrium state of Fermi liquids called the Floquet Fermi liquid (FFL), which is formed when Fermi liquids are subjected to a periodic ...

Equilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics provide predictive power that drives much of our fundamental understanding and practical engineering capabilities in chemistry, materials science ...

“Critical transitions”, in which systems switch abruptly from one state to another are ubiquitous in physical and biological systems. Such critical transitions in complex systems are commonly ...

Physical systems become inherently more complicated and difficult to produce in a lab as the number of dimensions they exist in increases—even more so in quantum systems. While discrete time crystals ...

Consider the single-DOF problem of a thin bar pinned to ground with a constant horizontal force F acting at the free end of the bar. This says that for a small perturbation about the equilibrium state ...