Physics and complexity

Journal article

This paper is concerned with complex macroscopic behaviour arising in many-body systems through the combinations of competitive interactions and disorder, even with simple ingredients at the microscopic level. It attempts to indicate and illustrate the richness that has arisen, in conceptual understanding, in methodology and in application, across a large range of scientific disciplines, together with a hint of some of the further opportunities that remain to be tapped. In doing so, it takes ...

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Authors: Sherrington, D

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Royal Society Publishing Publisher's website
• Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Journal website
• Volume: 368
• Issue: 1914
• Pages: 1175-1189
• Publication date: 2010-03-01
• DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0208
• EISSN: 1471-2962
• Language: English
• Keywords: complex systems; spin glasses; econophysics; hard optimization; NP-completeness; neural networks
• Subjects: Physics