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PhD: Characterisation of out-of-equilibrium phase transitions with the emergence of limit cycles

Thesis defence

On July 10, 2024

Guislain

Laura Guislain (LIPhy, PSM)

Systems held out of equilibrium by forcing often exhibit a rich phenomenology. Examples include the synchronisation transition, in which oscillators of different frequencies begin to oscillate in phase if their interactions are sufficiently strong, or the appearance of oscillations in highly dissipative systems, such as chemical clocks (Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction). Such systems are archetypes of non-equilibrium statistical physics, which has developed methodologies adapted to their study. In this thesis, we develop theoretical tools to study out-of-equilibrium phase transitions with the emergence of a limit cycle, in the case where the microscopic degrees of freedom are not constrained to oscillate as in standard studies of the synchronisation transition but can lead to a form of oscillation in certain regimes.

Date

On July 10, 2024
Complément date

14:00

Localisation

Complément lieu

LIPhy, conference room

Submitted on July 4, 2024

Updated on July 4, 2024