statistical mechanics

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A deep and original thinker, David Thouless made many significant contributions in areas as wide-ranging as nuclear matter, statistical mechanics and condensed-matter physics.

From Nature

The robots rely on the same kind of statistical mechanics that allows groups of cells to move, creating some intriguing possibilities.

From Nature

He wrote several papers on statistical mechanics with his wife, Ruth Truscott, a professor of chemistry at Queen’s University Belfast; they married in 1961 and raised two children, Marion and Edward.

From Nature

Among other achievements, he helped to develop statistical mechanics and discovered that some elements become radioactive when bombarded with neutrons, a breakthrough that won him the Nobel Prize in 1938.

From Scientific American

We observe a dynamical phase transition after a sudden change of the Hamiltonian, in a regime in which conventional statistical mechanics does not apply4.

From Nature