Billiard systems are used in statistical physics as models of particle motion.

And they believe they have evidence that statistical physics could help explain some of bacteria's most impressive-andnefarious-behaviors

He was bringing concepts from physics -notably statistical physics -to bear on the complex behaviour of living organisms.

In this work, we study the statistical physics of self-assembly in a simpler scenario: the formation of dimers from a system of monomers.

The Ising model has been proposed in statistical physics as a simplified model for analysis of magnetic interactions and structures of ferromagnetic substances.

How a closed interacting quantum many-body system relaxes and dephases as a function of time is a fundamental question in thermodynamic and statistical physics.

Our approach uses people as components of a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm, a sophisticated sampling method originally developed in statistical physics.