# Electric-field driven nonequilibrium phase transitions in AdS/CFT

## TL;DR

This paper investigates how electric fields induce phase transitions in a holographic model, revealing mean-field critical behavior in nonequilibrium steady states with dissipation.

## Contribution

It demonstrates the occurrence of first- and second-order phase transitions driven by electric fields in a holographic D3/D7 model at finite temperature.

## Key findings

- Identification of first- and second-order phase transitions under electric field variation.
- Critical exponents match mean-field theory predictions.
- Analysis of nonequilibrium steady states in holographic systems.

## Abstract

We study phase transitions and critical phenomena in nonequilibrium steady states controlled by an electric field. We employ the D3/D7 model in the presence of a charge density and electric field at finite temperatures. The system undergoes the first-order and the second-order phase transitions under the variation of the electric field in the presence of dissipation. We numerically find that the critical exponents which we define for the nonequilibrium phase transition in this model take the mean-field values.