Physicists reveal how to cope with frustration
Thursday, June 3, 2010 - 11:01
in Physics & Chemistry
For most people, frustration is a condition to be avoided. But for scientists studying certain 'frustrated' ensembles of interacting components - that is, those which cannot settle into a state that minimises each interaction - it may be the key to understanding a host of puzzling phenomena that affect systems from neural networks and social structures to protein folding and magnetism...