Universality Classes of Synchronization Phase Transitions
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Statistical Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 19 May 2025 | Viewed by 1880
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nonequilibrium phase transitions; critical universality classes; disordered systems; brain network models; power-grid network models; surface growth classes
Interests: universality classes; phase transitions and scaling in non-equilibrium systems; field theoretical methods; renormalization group; statistical physics; complex systems; synchronization dynamics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Critical universality classes of non-equilibrium models, mainly of the reaction-diffusion type, are a well-explored area of statistical physics [1-3]. Much less is know about oscillatory models, which can also exhibit various types of phase transitions. Synchronization transitions are very ubiquitous in nature, and biological, neural, or power-grid systems are posed to be at the edge of such transitions. The behavior of such systems depends on the type of self-frequency, which acts as a quenched disorder.
In this Special Issue we collect articles on recent advances related to the synchronization transitions on a pathway of exploring universality classes of oscillatory models.
[1] Odor, G. Universality classes in nonequilibrium lattice systems. Rev. Mod. Phys. 2004, 76, 663.
[2] Odor, G. Universality in Nonequilibrium Lattice Systems, Theoretical Foundations; World Scientific: Singapore, 2008.
[3] Henkel, M.; Hinrichsen, H.; Lubeck, S. Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions; Springer: Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany, 2008.
Dr. Shengfeng Deng
Guest Editors
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