Dynamical symmetries and causality in non-equilibrium phase transitions

DOI10.3390/SYM7042108MaRDI QIDQ2406265zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Malte Henkel

Publication date 27 September 2017

Published in Symmetry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

ageing algebracausalityconformal Galilei algebraholographyparabolic sub-algebraphysical ageingrepresentationsSchrödinger 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)

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.

Review text

Summary: 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.

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• Non-equilibrium phase transitions. Volume 2: Ageing and dynamical scaling far from equilibrium
• Phenomenology of local scale invariance: From conformal invariance to dynamical scaling
• On spontaneous symmetry breakdown in dynamical systems
• Dynamical space-time symmetry for ageing systems

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