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When irrelevance governs: dissipation-regression scaling in open quantum criticality
Fan Zhong
The real-time dynamics of quantum phase transitions in open systems coupled to finite-temperature environments sits at the heart of contemporary condensed-matter and quantum-inform…
Unique temporal scaling dimension for quantum criticality in open systems weakly coupled to environment
Fan Zhong
Probing, understanding, predicting, and controlling the real-time dynamics of quantum phase transitions in open systems are of pivotal importance to modern condensed matter physics…
Fixed points and crossovers for the hysteresis scaling of dynamic mean-field models
Jiapeng Yang, Fan Zhong
Phase transitions are divided into first-order phase transitions and continuous ones in current classification. While the latter shows striking phenomena of scaling and universalit…
Nucleation and growth manifest universal scaling, surely
Fan Zhong
When a system is brought to a metastable state, nuclei of the equilibrium phase form and grow. This is the well-known nucleation and growth of first-order phase transitions. Near a…
Complete universal scaling in first-order phase transitions
Fan Zhong
Phase transitions and critical phenomena are among the most intriguing phenomena in nature and society. They are classified as first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous…
Self-organized biodiversity in biotic resource systems
Ju Kang, Shijie Zhang, Yiyuan Niu +1
What determines biodiversity in nature is a prominent issue in ecology, especially in biotic resource systems that are typically devoid of cross-feeding. Here, we show that by inco…
Effective-Dimension Theory of Critical Phenomena above Upper Critical Dimensions
Shaolong Zeng, Sue Ping Szeto, Fan Zhong
Phase transitions and critical phenomena are among the most intriguing phenomena in nature and their renormalization-group theory is one of the greatest achievements of theoretical…
Theory of Critical Phenomena with Memory
Shaolong Zeng, Sue ping Szeto, Fan Zhong
Memory is a ubiquitous characteristic of complex systems and critical phenomena are one of the most intriguing phenomena in nature. Here, we propose an Ising model with memory and…
Intraspecific predator interference promotes biodiversity in ecosystems
Ju Kang, Shijie Zhang, Yiyuan Niu +2
Explaining biodiversity is a fundamental issue in ecology. A long-standing puzzle lies in the paradox of the plankton: many species of plankton feeding on a limited variety of reso…
Scaling Theories of Kosterlitz-Thouless Phase Transitions
Zhiyao Zuo, Shuai Yin, Xuanmin Cao +1
We propose scaling theories for Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) phase transitions on the basis of the hallmark exponential growth of their correlation length. Finite-size scaling, finite-…
Phases fluctuations, self-similarity breaking and anomalous scalings in driven nonequilibrium critical phenomena
Weilun Yuan, Fan Zhong
We study in detail the dynamic scaling of the three-dimensional (3D) Ising model driven through its critical point on finite-size lattices and show that a series of new critical ex…
Self-similarity breaking: Anomalous nonequilibrium finite-size scaling and finite-time scaling
Weilun Yuan, Shuai Yin, Fan Zhong
Symmetry breaking plays a pivotal role in modern physics. Although self-similarity is also a symmetry and appears ubiquitously in nature, a fundamental question is whether self-sim…
Angle-Resolved Thermal Emission Spectroscopy Characterization of Non-Hermitian Meta-Crystals
Fan Zhong, Kun Ding, Ye Zhang +3
We establish the angle-resolved thermal emission spectroscopy (ARTES) as a new platform to characterize the intrinsic eigenmode properties of non-Hermitian systems. This method can…
Driving Driven Lattice Gases to Identify Their Universality Classes
Yahui Li, Zhongda Zeng, Fan Zhong
The critical behavior of driven lattice gas models has been studied for decades as a paradigm to explore nonequilibrium phase transitions and critical phenomena. However, there exi…
Controlling Surface Plasmons Through Covariant Transformation of the Spin-Dependent Geometric Phase Between Curved Metamaterials
Fan Zhong, Jensen Li, Hui Liu +1
General relativity uses curved space-time to describe accelerating frames. The movement of particles in different curved space-times can be regarded as equivalent physical processe…
Scaling theory of entanglement entropy in confinements near quantum critical points
Xuanmin Cao, Qijun Hu, Fan Zhong
We propose a unified scaling theory of entanglement entropy in the confinements of finite bond dimensions, dynamics and system sizes. Within the theory, the finite-entanglement sca…
Universal scaling in first-order phase transitions mixed with nucleation and growth
Fan Zhong
Matter exhibits phases and their transitions. These transitions are classified as first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous ones. While the latter has a well-established…
Universal scaling in first-order phase transitions mixed with nucleation and growth
Fan Zhong
Matter exhibits phases and their transitions. These transitions are classified as first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous ones. While the latter has a well-established…
Compelling evidence for the theory of dynamic scaling in first-order phase transitions
Fan Zhong
Matter exhibits phases and their transitions. These transitions are classified as first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous ones. While the latter has a well-established…
Renormalization-group theory for cooling first-order phase transitions in Potts models
Ning Liang, Fan Zhong
We develop a dynamic field-theoretic renormalization-group (RG) theory for the cooling first-order phase transitions in the Potts model. It is suggested that the well-known imagina…
Theory of Driven Nonequilibrium Critical Phenomena
Baoquan Feng, Shuai Yin, Fan Zhong
A system driven in the vicinity of its critical point by varying a relevant field in an arbitrary function of time is a generic system that possesses a long relaxation time compare…
Renormalization-group theory for temperature-driven first-order phase transitions in scalar models
Ning Liang, Fan Zhong
We study the scaling and universal behavior of temperature-driven first-order phase transitions in scalar models. These transitions are found to exhibit rich phenomena, though they…
Complete scaling makes differences along the critical isobar: Molecular dynamics simulations of Lennard-Jones fluid with finite-time scaling
Yankui Wang, Ji Liu, Jiajie Xiao +1
We show that, along the critical isobar, the complete scaling results in a unique leading scaling qualitatively distinct to that arising from the simple and the revised scalings. T…
Kibble-Zurek mechanism beyond adiabaticity: Finite-time scaling with critical initial slip
Yingyi Huang, Shuai Yin, Qijun Hu +1
The Kibble-Zurek mechanism demands an initial adiabatic stage before an impulse stage to have a frozen correlation length that generates topological defects in a cooling phase tran…