Zoltan Racz
Published 2002-10-20Version 1
Nonequilibrium phase transitions are discussed with emphasis on general features such as the role of detailed balance violation in generating effective (long-range) interactions, the importance of dynamical anisotropies, the connection between various mechanisms generating power-law correlations, and the emergence of universal distribution functions for macroscopic quantities. Quantum spin chains are also discussed in order to demonstrate how to construct steady-states carrying fluxes in quantum systems, and to explain how the fluxes may generate power-law correlations.
Comments: Lecture Notes, Les Houches, July 2002, 43 pages, 11 figures
Splitting of nonequilibrium phase transitions in driven Ising models
Work statistics for Quantum Spin Chains: characterizing quantum phase transitions, benchmarking time evolution, and examining passivity of quantum states
Topological phase transition and $\mathbb{Z}_2$ index for $S=1$ quantum spin chains
