Statistical mechanics provides a fundamental framework for understanding how collective phenomena in many-body systems give rise to macroscopic changes in state, known as phase transitions. Research ...

Condensation phenomena in statistical mechanics refer to the abrupt accumulation of a significant fraction of a system’s degrees of freedom into a dominant, macroscopically occupied state. This ...

I RECENTLY walked by a physics department office that had a sticker on it saying something like “Heisenberg may or may not have been here”. This is in part a nod to the quantum cat, which, while it is ...