Spontaneous deracemizations is a challenging, multidisciplinary subject in current chirality
research. In the absence of any chiral inductors, an achiral substance or a racemic …

Stationary nonequilibrium states describe steady flows through macroscopic systems.
Although they represent the simplest generalization of equilibrium states, they exhibit a …

The physics of non-equilibrium many-body systems is a rapidly expanding area of
theoretical physics. Traditionally employed in laser physics and superconducting kinetics …

One of the major challenges in modern biology is to understand how the molecular
components of a living cell operate in a highly noisy environment. What are the specific …

The theory of large deviations is concerned with the exponential decay of probabilities of
large fluctuations in random systems. These probabilities are important in many fields of …

Noise permeates biology on all levels, from the most basic molecular, sub-cellular
processes to the dynamics of tissues, organs, organisms and populations. The functional …

Theoretical ecologists have long sought to understand how the persistence of populations
depends on biotic and abiotic factors. Classical work showed that demographic stochasticity …

Starting at the mesoscopic level with a general formulation of stochastic thermodynamics in
terms of Markov jump processes, the scaling conditions that ensure the emergence of a …

This Perspective presents a personal overview of the current status of the theory of chemical
kinetics and mechanisms for complex processes. We attempt to assess the status of the field …

A statistical theory of rogue waves is proposed and tested against experimental data
collected in a long water tank where random waves with different degrees of nonlinearity are …