From Particles to Complex Matter

Overview

The field of complex and non-equilibrium systems is currently driven by a large body of new experiments and theoretical ideas in various branches of physics, from condensed matter physics up to ultra-cold atomic physics and biology. Beyond their apparent diversity, these systems share a common characteristic: the emergence of complex collective behaviors from the interaction of elementary components. Glassy dynamics, out-of-equilibrium systems, the emergence of self-organized or self-assembled structures, criticality, percolating systems, domain wall propagation and pinning of elastic walls, nonlinear systems, turbulence and fracture propagation are some subjects of complex matter that can be addressed only with the tools developed for the study of systems of interacting entities. Understanding these phenomena also requires the development of new theoretical methods in statistical physics and the design of new types of experiments.

Program

• Invited Talk e-session (103) - Qiuping-Alexandre Wang (76), Marc-André Delsuc (77)

• Foundations of thermodynamics (204) - Evgeni B. Starikov (358)

• Scaling behavior upon the influence of time interval in temporal networks (206) - Liping Chi (360), Chunbin Yang (361)

• Entropies for severely contracted configuration space: dynamics at or near the onset of chaos (216) - Alberto Robledo (371)

• Anomalous diffusion in volcanic seismicity (254) - Sumiyoshi Abe (423)

• Rank-frequency relation for phonemes (255) - Armen Allahverdyan (424)

• Could life be simpler? (296) - Zbigniew Struzik (467)

• Monte Carlo simulation of one-dimensional lattice chains model for a predator prey system (339) - Wenhua Qiao (515)

• Foundations of Thermodynamics (490) - Evgeni B. Starikov (716)

• Complex Chemistry e-session (105) - Marc-André Delsuc (77), Pavletta Shestakova (80), Gonen Ashkenasy (81)

• Coarse-grained molecular dynamics versus mesoscale (dynamic) density functional theory for copolymer-vesicle self-assembly. Case study: sterically stabilized liposomes. (120) - Alexander A. Kantardjiev (227), Pavletta Shestakova (228)

• Realization of Novel Boolean Logic Operations and Reversible Logic gates in Modular Fluidic Devices (415) - Brian E. Fratto (594)

• Physics of Complex Systems e-session (106) - Denis Grebenkov (78), Sarah Klein (82)

• Phase-field models for the growth and evolution of complex structures (35) - Mathis Plapp (53)

• Localization of waves and vibrations in complex systems (69) - Marcel Filoche (126)

• Disordered actomyosin contracts in unexpected ways (193) - Martin Lenz (347)

• A general approach to the linear stability analysis of miscible viscous fingering in porous media (71) - Tapan Kumar Hota (128), Satyajit Pramanik (132), Manoranjan Mishra (133)

• Viscosity scaling in hydrodynamic instabilities in porous media (80) - Satyajit Pramanik (147)

• Chemical Garden e-session (107) - Anne de Wit (79)

• Chemobrionics (72) - Julyan Cartwright (138)

• Self-organization in the flow-driven copper-cobaltous-oxalate system (75) - Dezso Horvath (134), Eszter Toth-Szeles (135), Gabor Schuszter (136), Agota Toth (137)

• Assembly of molecular metal oxides from the nano to the macroscale via chemical gardens (207) - Lee Cronin (362)