Most of us are familiar with the concept of a random walk — a classic example is provided by a pollen particle suspended in water. But what if we replace the pollen with a quantum system, to produce a ...

Hypergraphs offer an explicit formalism to describe multibody interactions in complex systems. To connect dynamics and function in systems with these higher-order interactions, network scientists have ...

These are not the kinds of objects that concern Scott Sheffield. Sheffield, a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studies shapes that are constructed by random ...