Physics and Complexity
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2015-05-13 v2
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.3572,
title = {Physics and Complexity},
author = {David Sherrington},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3572},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
20 pages. Commissioned for a special issue of Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A to appear in 2010