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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Department Colloquium | Non-Reciprocal Phase Transitions
DESCRIPTION:Spontaneous synchronization is at the core of many natural phenomena. Your heartbeat is maintained because cells contract in a synchronous wave\; some bird species synchronize their motion into flocks\; quantum synchronization is responsible for laser action and superconductivity. \n\nThe transition to synchrony\, or between states of different patterns of synchrony\, is a dynamical phase transition that has much in common with conventional phase transitions of state – for example solid to liquid\, or magnetism – but the striking feature of driven dynamical systems is that the components are “active”. Consequently quantum systems with dissipation and decay are described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians\, and active matter can abandon Newton’s third law and have non-reciprocal interactions. This substantially changes the character of many-degree-of-freedom dynamical phase transitions between steady states and the critical phenomena in their vicinity\, since the critical point is an “exceptional point” where eigenvalues become degenerate and eigenvectors coalesce.\n\nWe will illustrate this in several different systems – a Bose-Einstein condensate of polaritons\, models of multicomponent active matter such as flocks of birds\, generalized Kuramoto models\, and others. We argue that there is a systematic theory and generalized phase diagram\, and corresponding universality behaviors determined by the  symmetry of the models. \n\n[1] Fruchart et al.\, Nature 592\, 363-369 (2021)\n[2] Hanai et al. Phys.Rev.Lett 122\, 185301 (2019)\n[3] R Hanai\, PB Littlewood Physical Review Research 2 (3)\, 033018 (2020)
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132230
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CATEGORIES:Physics,Science
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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