{"id":227364,"date":"2025-12-18T01:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/subsystem-resetting-researchers-discover-a-new-route-to-control-phase-transitions-in-complex-systems"},"modified":"2025-12-18T01:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:20:11","slug":"subsystem-resetting-researchers-discover-a-new-route-to-control-phase-transitions-in-complex-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/subsystem-resetting-researchers-discover-a-new-route-to-control-phase-transitions-in-complex-systems","title":{"rendered":"Subsystem resetting: Researchers discover a new route to control phase transitions in complex systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/subsystem-resetting-researchers-discover-a-new-route-to-control-phase-transitions-in-complex-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, have discovered that instead of manipulating every component or modifying interactions in a many-body system, occasionally resetting just a small fraction can reshape how the entire system behaves, including how it transitions from one phase to another.<\/p>\n<p>This counterintuitive approach, called subsystem resetting, offers a powerful, universal control strategy to tune collective behavior in complex systems ranging from magnets to neural networks.<\/p>\n<p>This work by Anish Acharya, Rupak Majumder, and Prof. Shamik Gupta has been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/np7q-hxld\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, have discovered that instead of manipulating every component or modifying interactions in a many-body system, occasionally resetting just a small fraction can reshape how the entire system behaves, including how it transitions from one phase to another. This counterintuitive approach, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}