2019 Spring Physics Colloquium 


강연일자: 2019. 04. 02. 화. 오후 5시

장소: 아산이학관 433호

강연자: 강병남 (서울대)

강연주제: Hybrid phase transitions in complex systems



Phase transitions are conventionally classified into two categories: first-order and second-order transitions. In the former, the order parameter is discontinuous  and fluctuations are finite,  whereas in the latter, the order parameter changes continuously and the correlation length diverges. However, the so-called hybrid transitions combine features of both types. Such transitions were first foreseen by D. J. Thouless in 1969 for equilibrium systems with long-range interactions, followed by various models even with short-range interactions in equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems. In this talk, I will present the Landau formalism for the hybrid phase transitions in equilibrium systems and illustrate underlying mechanism of hybrid percolation transitions in non-equilibrium systems.