nLab phase transition

Idea

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Related concepts

• Landau theory of phase transitions

• thermodynamic limit

• phase of matter

• quantum phase transition

• topological phase of matter

References

Reviews:

• Alexander Umantsev, Landau Theory of Phase Transitions, in: Field Theoretic Method in Phase Transformations, Lecture Notes in Physics 840 (2012) 7–35 $[$doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-1487-2_2$]$

See also:

• Wikipedia, Phase transition

Application of topological data analysis (persistent homology) to analysis of phase transitions:

• Alex Cole, Gregory J. Loges, Gary Shiu, Quantitative and Interpretable Order Parameters for Phase Transitions from Persistent Homology (arXiv:2009.14231)

On phase transitions of metals including strange metals:

• Subir Sachdev: Lectures on the quantum phase transitions of metals [arXiv:2407.15919]