This paper deals with pure argon plasma studied in a magnetically enhanced inductively coupled reactor. Laser induced fluorescence technique was performed with an optical parametric oscillator laser on the 3d 4F7/2 and 3d 2G9/2 Ar + metastable levels and on the (2P3/2 0 )4s neutral metastable state to determine their relative densities. Langmuir probe was used as a complementary diagnostic to m...

Experimental measurements of colloidal crystallization in a wide range of volume fractions of charged particles were performed to investigate the liquid-metastable-stable transition process. To fit the obtained experimental data, we developed a theoretical model to formulate the kinetics of the concurrent liquid-metastable and metastable-stable transitions. This model is well-supported by our o...

We study a large class of reversible Markov chains with discrete state space and transition matrixPN . We define the notion of a set of metastable points as a subset of the state space N such that (i) this set is reached from any point x ∈ N without return to x with probability at least bN , while (ii) for any two points x, y in the metastable set, the probability T −1 x,y to reach y from x wit...

We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum jumps in a one-dimensional chain of atoms. Each atom is driven on a strong transition to a short-lived state and on a weak transition to a metastable state. We choose the metastable state to be a Rydberg state so that when an atom jumps to the Rydberg state, it inhibits or enhances jumps in the neighboring atoms. This leads to rich spatiotemporal ...

We investigate a puzzle in the recent thermodynamics of scalar-tensor gravity, which general relativity is zero-temperature state equilibrium and gravity non-equilibrium configuration an effective dissipative fluid. A stealth solution Brans-Dicke with constant positive temperature shown to be analogous metastable for fluid suffer from instability. The stability analysis employs version Bardeen-...