Victor Buend'ia, Pablo Villegas, R. Burioni, M. A. Muñoz
{"title":"Hybrid-type synchronization transitions: Where incipient oscillations, scale-free avalanches, and bistability live together","authors":"Victor Buend'ia, Pablo Villegas, R. Burioni, M. A. Muñoz","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.023224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.023224","url":null,"abstract":"The human cortex is never at rest but in a state of sparse and noisy neural activity. It has been conjectured that such a state is best described as a critical dynamical process -- whose nature is still not fully understood -- where scale-free avalanches of activity emerge at the edge of a synchronization phase transition. Using a simple model of coupled excitable oscillators, we rule out standard phase transitions to explain the emergence of collective oscillations, as they do not suffice to explain current experimental evidence. Conversely, we uncover a novel hybrid-type of synchronization transition displaying a very-rich dynamical repertoire supporting all key empirical observations, including scale-free avalanches, marginal coherence, and bistability.","PeriodicalId":8473,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Statistical Mechanics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88873940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The folded spin-1/2 XXZ model: II. Thermodynamics and hydrodynamics with a minimal set of charges","authors":"Lenart Zadnik, Kemal Bidzhiev, M. Fagotti","doi":"10.21468/SCIPOSTPHYS.10.5.099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21468/SCIPOSTPHYS.10.5.099","url":null,"abstract":"We study the (dual) folded spin-1/2 XXZ model in the thermodynamic limit. We focus, in particular, on a class of local macrostates that includes Gibbs ensembles. We develop a thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz description and work out generalised hydrodynamics at the leading order. Remarkably, in the ballistic scaling limit the junction of two local macrostates results in a discontinuity in the profile of essentially any local observable.","PeriodicalId":8473,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Statistical Mechanics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72824997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entropy production for quasiadiabatic parameter changes dominated by hydrodynamics","authors":"Philipp S. Weiss, Dennis Hardt, A. Rosch","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVA.103.033309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.103.033309","url":null,"abstract":"A typical strategy of realizing an adiabatic change of a many-particle system is to vary parameters very slowly on a time scale $t_text{r}$ much larger than intrinsic equilibration time scales. In the ideal case of adiabatic state preparation, $t_text{r} to infty$, the entropy production vanishes. In systems with conservation laws, the approach to the adiabatic limit is hampered by hydrodynamic long-time tails, arising from the algebraically slow relaxation of hydrodynamic fluctuations. We argue that the entropy production $Delta S$ of a diffusive system at finite temperature in one or two dimensions is governed by hydrodynamic modes resulting in $Delta S sim 1/sqrt{t_text{r}}$ in $d=1$ and $Delta S sim ln(t_text{r})/t_text{r}$ in $d=2$. In higher dimensions, entropy production is instead dominated by other high-energy modes with $Delta S sim 1/t_text{r}$. In order to verify the analytic prediction, we simulate the non-equilibrium dynamics of a classical two-component gas with point-like particles in one spatial dimension and examine the total entropy production as a function of $t_text{r}$.","PeriodicalId":8473,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Statistical Mechanics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83635934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phase Transitions","authors":"Doruk Efe Gökmen","doi":"10.1142/9789811223433_0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811223433_0009","url":null,"abstract":"You will, anyway, if you spend any time talking with Jesse Berezovsky, an associate professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University. The longtime science researcher and a part-time viola player has become consumed with understanding and explaining the connective tissue between the two disciplines—more specifically, how the ordered structure of music emerges from the general chaos of sound.","PeriodicalId":8473,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Statistical Mechanics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85035896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fermi-Dirac Statistics","authors":"Harleen Kaur, Enrico Fermi, P. A. M. Dirac","doi":"10.1142/9789811223433_0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811223433_0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8473,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Statistical Mechanics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87819538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}