| Description: | [DPS Seminar] Bhavtosh Bansal (IISER Kolkata) -- Zeroth-order phase transitions: abrupt transitions with signatures of criticality -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/kgs-jpqv-cdu -::~::- |
| Date: | Wednesday, Aug 05, 2020 |
| Time: | 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. |
| Details: | I will describe a new class of phase transitions---zeroth-order transitions. These are hysteretic abrupt transitions controlled by a critical-like (spinodal) singularity. Along with a large latent heat, these transitions also show attributes of the second-order phase transitions, namely critical slowing down of fluctuations and their enhanced variance (`critical opalescence’). |
| URL: | https://meet.google.com/kgs-jpqv-cdu |
| Calendar: | Seminar Calendar (entered by ghossain) |