News and Views: About Complexity and Why to Care



Título del documento: News and Views: About Complexity and Why to Care
Revista: Brazilian journal of physics
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000376105
ISSN: 0103-9733
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Jun
Volumen: 44
Número: 2-3
Paginación: 283-285
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental, analítico
Resumen en inglés What is nowadays ubiquitously referred to as complexity emerges in a wide variety of natural, artificial, and social systems. This very rich concept is nontrivial to understand and is therefore hard to operationally define. Consequently, along the years, many intertwined characterizations have been proposed in the literature. Among those, a powerful and practical one consists in focusing on the entropic and statistical mechanical aspects of the system. We attempt here to put this active line of research into a contemporary perspective
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: Termodinámica y física estadística,
Sistemas complejos,
Mecánica estadística no extensiva,
Entropía
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Thermodynamics and statistical physics,
Complex systems,
Non extensive statistical mechanics,
Entropy
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