Complexity from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales: Coherence and Large Deviations

Many mesoscopic systems display `adaptive'' behaviour - changes in some physical property that results from a small change in an internal or external driving force. There is a kind of progression in adaptive phenomena, from quantum mesoscopics to complex, evolved cooperative systems and large scale events like turbulence. The field of mesoscopic magnetism, especially quantum coherence and quantum ...