The study of quantum phase transitions in dissipative systems investigates the fundamental changes in the steady state of open quantum systems driven by the interplay between coherent evolution and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We study a Fourier-spectral method for a dissipative system modeling the flow of liquid crystals. We first prove its convergence in a suitable ...

An electric field transforms an iron oxide nanoparticle suspension into a model for the emergence of complex dissipative structures. Researchers at Aalto University have shown that a nanoparticle ...

Solitons are quasiparticles that propagate along a non-dissipative wave. Put another way, they are waveforms that hold their shape as they move—like a single wave moving across the surface of a pond.

An essay, "The Pleasures of Change," at the end of Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature (a book mainly composed of essays by the great biologist Lynn Margulis and her son Dorion Sagan ...