Biological processes that govern our lives are many, intertwined, and often difficult to understand. They involve countless interactions happening at once—molecules recognizing each other, signals ...

Scientists have developed a new method to analyze the dynamical, out-of-equilibrium properties of complex disordered systems, such as gold with magnetic impurities or opinions spreading on social ...

Field theory and the renormalization group (RG) offer a robust mathematical framework to decipher the complex phenomena emerging in disordered systems. At their core, these approaches model the ...

Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction (Routledge, 2003): Art history seems to be a global enterprise: After all, art is produced in outlandish quantities and studied in hundreds of art-history ...

Disordered and frustrated systems comprise a vibrant research area in condensed matter physics with applications in fields ranging from mathematics to biology. At their core, these systems share ...

Controlled defects in single-layer graphene pinpoint a critical 20 nm spacing where quantum interference traps electrons and ...

Physicists have found an answer to the longstanding physics question: How do interparticle interactions affect dynamical localization? Physicists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Maryland, ...

In physics, a "disordered system" refers to a physical system whose components – e.g. its atoms – are not organized in any discernible way. Like a drawer full of random socks, a disordered system ...

Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly ...