Superradiant matter: A new paradigm to explore dynamic phase transitions
If you put water in the freezer to make ice, you trigger a dynamic phase transition.
If you put water in the freezer to make ice, you trigger a dynamic phase transition.
Quantum Physics
Mar 18, 2015
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A new study by a team of physicists at Rice University, Zhejiang University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Florida State University and the Max Planck Institute adds to the growing body of evidence supporting a theory that ...
Superconductivity
Jan 30, 2015
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It is well known to scientists that the three common phases of water – ice, liquid and vapor – can exist stably together only at a particular temperature and pressure, called the triple point.
Condensed Matter
Aug 21, 2013
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A team of MIT researchers has succeeded in carrying out the first systematic investigation of the factors that control boiling heat transfer from a surface to a liquid. This process is crucial to the efficiency of power plants ...
General Physics
Jul 16, 2013
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Gelatin sets by forming a solid matrix full of random, liquid-filled pores—much like a saturated sponge. It turns out that a similar process also happens in some metallic glasses, substances whose molecular behavior has ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 3, 2013
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Novel, smart materials like shape memory alloys very often display so-called glass-like magnetism. Other smart materials with similar properties include those which, when exposed to a magnetic field, change their electrical ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 28, 2013
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Sudden shifts in complex systems such as the climate, financial markets, ecosystems and even the human body can be preceded by surprisingly comparable warning signals. It is crucial to be able to predict such transitions, ...
Mathematics
Oct 22, 2012
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Strange, stranger, strangest! To the weird nature of one of the simplest chemical compounds -- the stuff so familiar that even non-scientists know its chemical formula -- add another odd twist. Scientists are reporting that ...
Materials Science
Nov 9, 2011
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Knowing how to build nanosized assemblies of polymers (long molecular chains) holds the key to improving a broad range of industrial processes, from the production of nanofibers, filters, and new materials to the manufacture ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 5, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Porphyrins have received a great deal of attention in the scientific community owing to their useful application in a wide variety of areas, such as the treatment of cancer and systems that mimic photosynthesis. ...
Materials Science
Mar 23, 2010
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