critical phenomena
Critical phenomena refers to the collective behavior in which physical systems near a critical point exhibit universal and self-similar properties that transcend their specific details, leading to sudden and drastic changes in their physical properties.
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- anderson localization
- attractors
- bifurcation analysis
- black holes and hawking radiation
- bose-einstein condensation
- complex dynamical systems
- correlation functions
- critical dynamics
- critical exponents
- critical opalescence
- critical point
- dissipative systems
- fractals
- ising model
- magnetization curves
- order-disorder transitions
- percolation theory
- period-doubling cascades
- phase transitions
- quantum phase transitions
- renormalization group
- renormalization theory
- scaling
- self-organized criticality
- spin glasses
- statistical mechanics
- superconductivity
- universality