The movement of waves, patterns that carry sound, light or heat, through materials has been widely studied by physicists, as ...

A group of mathematicians has shown that at critical moments, a symmetry called rotational invariance is a universal property across many physical systems. For more than 50 years, mathematicians have ...

We extend the theory of symmetry-breaking dynamics in non-equilibrium second-order phase transitions known as the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) to transitions where the change of phase occurs not in ...