Dynamical symmetries and causality in non-equilibrium phase transitions

DOI10.3390/SYM7042108zbMATH Open1376.82067arXiv1509.03669OpenAlexW2177283290MaRDI QIDQ2406265FDOQ2406265

Authors: Malte Henkel 

Publication date: 27 September 2017

Published in: Symmetry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Dynamical symmetries are of considerable importance in elucidating the complex behaviour of strongly interacting systems with many degrees of freedom. Paradigmatic examples are cooperative phenomena as they arise in phase transitions, where conformal invariance has led to enormous progress in equilibrium phase transitions, especially in two dimensions. Non-equilibrium phase transitions can arise in much larger portions of the parameter space than equilibrium phase transitions. The state of the art of recent attempts to generalise conformal invariance to a new generic symmetry, taking into account the different scaling behaviour of space and time, will be reviewed. Particular attention will be given to the causality properties as they follow for co-variant $n$-point functions. These are important for the physical identification of n-point functions as responses or correlators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03669

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zbMATH Keywords

causalityrepresentationsholographyconformal Galilei algebraphysical ageingageing algebraparabolic sub-algebraSchrödinger algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26)

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