Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns in classical and quantum systems out of equilibrium.

A rich variety of nonequilibrium dynamical phenomena and processes unambiguously calls for the development of general numerical techniques to probe and estimate a complex interplay between spatial and temporal degrees of freedom in many-body systems of completely different nature. In this work we provide a solution to this problem by adopting a structural complexity measure to quantify spatiotemporal patterns in the time-dependent digital representation of a system. On the basis of very limited amount of data our approach allows us to distinguish different dynamical regimes and define critical parameters in both classical and quantum systems.