DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.1.32. The middle way

The middle way

10.1073/pnas.97.1.32

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Abstract

Mesoscopic organization in soft, hard, and biological matter is examined in the context of our present understanding of the principles responsible for emergent organized behavior (crystallinity, ferromagnetism, superconductivity, etc.) at long wavelengths in very large aggregations of particles. Particular attention is paid to the possibility that as-yet-undiscovered organizing principles might be at work at the mesoscopic scale, intermediate between atomic and macroscopic dimensions, and the implications of their discovery for biology and the physical sciences. The search for the existence and universality of such rules, the proof or disproof of organizing principles appropriate to the mesoscopic domain, is called the middle way.

Bibliography

Laughlin, R. B., Pines, D., Schmalian, J., StojkoviÄ, B. P., & Wolynes, P. (2000). The middle way. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97(1), 32â37.

Authors 5

R. B. Laughlin (first)
David Pines (additional)
Joerg Schmalian (additional)
Branko P. Stojković (additional)
Peter Wolynes (additional)

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Created	23 years, 1 month ago (July 26, 2002, 10:34 a.m.)
Deposited	3 years, 4 months ago (April 13, 2022, 5:21 p.m.)
Indexed	1 week, 4 days ago (Aug. 20, 2025, 8:28 a.m.)
Issued	25 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 4, 2000)
Published	25 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 4, 2000)
Published Online	25 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 4, 2000)
Published Print	25 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 4, 2000)

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BibTeX

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