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We present a quantitative measure of physical complexity, based on the amount of information required to build a given physical structure through self-assembly. Our procedure can be adapted to any given geometry, and thus to any given type…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-02 S. E. Ahnert , I. G. Johnston , T. M. A. Fink , J. P. K. Doye , A. A. Louis

Atomic-level modeling performed at large scales enables the investigation of mesoscale materials properties with atom-by-atom resolution. The spatial complexity of such cross-scale simulations renders them unsuitable for simple human visual…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-05 Heejung Chung , Rodrigo Freitas , Gowoon Cheon , Evan J. Reed

Depth is a complexity measure for natural systems of the kind studied in statistical physics and is defined in terms of computational complexity. Depth quantifies the length of the shortest parallel computation required to construct a…

Popular Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Jon Machta

As urban critic Jane Jacobs conceived, a city is essentially the problem of organized complexity. What underlies the complexity refers to a structural factor, called living structure, which is defined as a mathematical structure composed of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-03 Andy Jingqian Xue , Chenyu Huang , Bin Jiang

Atomistic simulations have become a powerful tool in materials research due to the extremely fine spatial and temporal resolution provided by such techniques. In order to understand the fundamental principles which govern material behavior…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-26 Jason F. Panzarino , Timothy J. Rupert

At present, there is a great deal of confusion regarding complexity and its measures (reviews on complexity measures are found in, e.g. Lloyd, 2001 and Shalizi, 2006 and more references therein). Moreover, there is also confusion regarding…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-05-01 Attila Grandpierre

This article is intended to an introductory lecture in material physics, in which the modern computational group theory and the electronic structure calculation are in collaboration. The effort of mathematicians in field of the group…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-08 Akihito Kikuchi

We present assembly-theory, a Rust package for computing assembly indices of covalently bonded molecular structures. This is a key complexity measure of assembly theory, a recent theoretical framework quantifying selection across diverse…

In this paper we examine the concept of complexity as it applies to generative and evolutionary art and design. Complexity has many different, discipline specific definitions, such as complexity in physical systems (entropy), algorithmic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Jon McCormack , Camilo Cruz Gambardella

Complexity of patterns is a key information for human brain to differ objects of about the same size and shape. Like other innate human senses, the complexity perception cannot be easily quantified. We propose a transparent and universal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-30 Andrey A. Bagrov , Ilia A. Iakovlev , Askar A. Iliasov , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Vladimir V. Mazurenko

The applications of machine learning techniques to chemistry and materials science become more numerous by the day. The main challenge is to devise representations of atomic systems that are at the same time complete and concise, so as to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Michael J. Willatt , Felix Musil , Michele Ceriotti

In this paper we examine the concept of complexity as it applies to generative art and design. Complexity has many different, discipline specific definitions, such as complexity in physical systems (entropy), algorithmic measures of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Jon McCormack , Camilo Cruz Gambardella , Andy Lomas

In recent years, the advancement of AI technologies has accelerated the development of smart factories. In particular, the automatic monitoring of product assembly progress is crucial for improving operational efficiency, minimizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Kazuma Miura , Sarthak Pathak , Kazunori Umeda

Finding an optimal match between two different crystal structures underpins many important materials science problems, including describing solid-solid phase transitions, developing models for interface and grain boundary structures. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-21 Félix Therrien , Peter Graf , Vladan Stevanović

Economic transformation -- change in what an economy produces -- is foundational to development and rising standards of living. Our understanding of this process has been propelled recently by two branches of work in the field of economic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-28 James McNerney , Yang Li , Andres Gomez-Lievano , Frank Neffke

Our work is motivated by the challenges presented in preparing arrays of atoms for use in quantum simulation. The recently-developed process of loading atoms into traps results in approximately half of the traps being filled. To consolidate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Alexandre Cooper , Stephanie Maaz , Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura

We introduce structural heterogeneity, a new topological characteristic for semi-ordered materials that captures their degree of organisation at a mesoscopic level and tracks their time-evolution, ultimately detecting the order-disorder…

Software code complexity is a well-studied property to determine software component health. However, the existing code complexity metrics do not directly take into account the fault-proneness aspect of the code. We propose a metric called…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Ali Parsai , Serge Demeyer

Self-assembly materials are traditionally designed so that molecular or meso-scale components form a single kind of large structure. Here, we propose a scheme to create "multifarious assembly mixtures", which self-assemble many different…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-22 Arvind Murugan , Zorana Zeravcic , Michael P. Brenner , Stanislas Leibler

One of the great challenges of modern science is to faithfully model, and understand, matter at a wide range of scales. Starting with atoms, the vastness of the space of possible configurations poses a formidable challenge to any simulation…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-28 Sebastian E. Ahnert , William P. Grant , Chris J. Pickard