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Nature Physics 4, 345–346 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/nphys973

Random organization: Ordered chaos

Daan Frenkel

When we speak about self-organizing systems, we intuitively think of situations where an initially disordered state spontaneously evolves into an ordered one. On page 420 of this issue, Cort|[eacute]| and co-workers present a combined numerical and experimental study of a driven system of spherical particles dispersed in a viscous liquid.