Physics and complexity

Journal article

Abstract:: 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 the perspective of physics and tries to show, albeit rather briefly, how physics has contributed and been stimulated.

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Institution:: "University of Oxford", "Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA"
Department:: Mathematical,Physical & Life Sciences Division - Physics - Theoretical Physics
Role:: Author

Publisher:: Royal Society Publishing
Journal:: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A More from this journal
Volume:: 368
Issue:: 1914
Pages:: 1175-1189
Publication date:: 2010-03-01
Edition:: Publisher's version
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
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Local pid:: ora:5493
Deposit date:: 2011-06-23

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