We study nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions in the XY spin 1/2 chain using the C* algebra. We show that the well-known quantum phase transition at a magnetic field of h = 1 also persists in the nonequilibrium setting ...

The nonequilibrium steady state of a direct gap semiconductor is studied under high levels of photoexcitation by continuous laser light. The stability of the uniform steady state of itinerant carriers is probed resorting ...

Externally driven glassy systems may undergo nonequilibrium phase (NEPTs). In particular, ac-driven systems display special features, such as those observed in the vortex matter of NbSe2, where oscillatory drives reorganize ...

We compare two different notions of dynamical phase transitions in closed quantum systems. The first is identified through the time-averaged value of the equilibrium-order parameter, whereas the second corresponds to ...

We investigate the nonequilibrium roughening transition of a one-dimensional restricted solid-on-solid model by directly sampling the stationary probability density of a suitable order parameter as the surface adsorption ...

We employ finite elements methods for the approximation of solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equations describing the deconfinement transition in quantum chromodynamics. These methods seem appropriate for situations where ...

Phase transitions and damage spreading for a lattice gas model with mixed  driven lattice gas (DLG)-Glauber dynamics are studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. In order to control the number of sites updated according ...