Complex Materials in Physics and Biology
Recent years have seen surprising connections develop between physics and such research fields as mathematics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and even economics. These connections now constitute the fascinating research area known as complex materials and systems. Statistical physics is key in exp...
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| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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IOS Press
2014
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/36212 |
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| Tóm tắt: | Recent years have seen surprising connections develop between physics and such research
fields as mathematics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and even economics. These
connections now constitute the fascinating research area known as complex materials
and systems. Statistical physics is key in exploring this new expanding field because
it is able to show how phenomena and processes long thought to be unrelated can, by
means of few unifying concepts, be given a common description. By generalizing methods
previously used to order phenomena in simple systems, statistical physics enables us to
understand real-world phenomena comprised of complex materials —e.g., biomolecules,
polymers, granular substances, glasses, water, membranes, and interfaces— or exhibiting
complex processes —e.g., dynamical arrest, chaos, turbulence, network propagation, epidemic
spreading, biological functioning, and economic fluctuations. At its current stage
of development, this generalizing approach is supported by two conceptual pillars: scaling
and universality. For this reason scaling and universality was the conceptual frame
for the CLXXVI Course of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, held
from 29 June to 9 July 2010 in Varenna, Italy. The Course was organized and focused
so that these topics would be discussed, and a special emphasis was placed on “complex
materials in physics and biology” |
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