Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions J. M. Yeomans
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

This debate is especially relevant to the relation between statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, and the physics of phase transition. 2School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom. When phase transition occurs, the correlation length of the system grows to infinity and the critical system is invariant under scale variances. We investigate Lee-Yang zeros of generating functions of dynamical observables and establish a general relation between phase transitions in ensembles of trajectories of stochastic many-body systems and the time evolution of high-order cumulants of such observables. Now, in Physical Review Letters, Ashivni Shekhawat at Cornell In this case, it has been shown that fracture of a disordered three-dimensional solid can be viewed as a dynamic phase transition: the crack front “depins” itself from the disorder [3]. Why people with certain genes can control hiv without therapy: from statistical mechanics to the clinic. Received 18 September 2012; published 28 January 2013. In statistical mechanics, we want to obtain the critical properties of a physical system. 6:00 – 8:00 Non-equilibrium phase transitions and random ordering in driven suspensions of rods. Although system size and disorder are linked in a statistical physics description of fracture, the two parameters have typically been treated separately. The workshop on Computation and Phase Transitions brings together researchers from Statistical Physics, Probability, Discrete Mathematics, and Theoretical Computer Science.