More Brookhaven National Laboratory In the new study, the researchers have shown that the "forbidden" phase transition can be achieved only at a very narrow range of temperatures. And thus ...

These so-called phase transitions are fundamental to understanding materials. But how do such transitions behave in nanomaterials? A team of scientists now presents new insights into the complex ...

But instead of marking a transition between different structures of matter, the shift between web and no web indicates a change in the structure of information. “This is a phase transition in ...

The Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism, confirmed experimentally only for equilibrium phase transitions, is also applicable for non-equilibrium phase transitions, as is now shown in a landmark study.

But no past experiment had achieved this phase transition. One reason for the difficulty is that systems like quantum computers and simulators typically only work well when they are very cold.

A critical phenomena analysis then concluded that a phase transition, well studied in the physics of magnetic materials, occurred at a critical gene length of 1,500 nucleotides. This marked ...