Gardner transition

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In condensed matter physics, the Gardner transition refers to a temperature induced transition in which the free energy basin of a disordered system divides into many marginally stable sub-basins.{{Cite news|url=https://phys.org/news/2017-05-pages-year-debate-mysterious-phase.html|title=30 pages of calculations settle a 30-year debate over a mysterious new phase of matter|date=30 May 2017|work=Phys.org}} It is named after Elizabeth Gardner who first described it in 1985.{{Cite journal|last=Gardner|first=E.|date=1985|title=Spin glasses with p-spin interactions|journal=Nuclear Physics B|language=en|volume=257|pages=747–765|doi=10.1016/0550-3213(85)90374-8|bibcode=1985NuPhB.257..747G}}