Laughlin R B, Pines D, Schmalian J, Stojkovic B P, Wolynes P
Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 Jan 4;97(1):32-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.97.1.32.
Mesoscopic organization in soft, hard, and biological matter is examined in the context of our present understanding of the principles responsible for emergent organized behavior (crystallinity, ferromagnetism, superconductivity, etc.) at long wavelengths in very large aggregations of particles. Particular attention is paid to the possibility that as-yet-undiscovered organizing principles might be at work at the mesoscopic scale, intermediate between atomic and macroscopic dimensions, and the implications of their discovery for biology and the physical sciences. The search for the existence and universality of such rules, the proof or disproof of organizing principles appropriate to the mesoscopic domain, is called the middle way.
在我们目前对大量粒子聚集时在长波长下产生有组织行为（结晶性、铁磁性、超导性等）的原理的理解背景下，研究了软物质、硬物质和生物物质中的介观组织。特别关注了这样一种可能性，即在介于原子尺寸和宏观尺寸之间的介观尺度上，可能存在尚未被发现的组织原理在起作用，以及它们的发现对生物学和物理科学的影响。寻找此类规则的存在性和普遍性，证明或证伪适用于介观领域的组织原理，被称为中间道路。
