  Many natural and engineered dynamical systems, including all living objects,
exhibit signatures of what can be called spontaneous dynamical long-range order
(DLRO). This order's omnipresence has long been recognized by the scientific
community, as evidenced by a myriad of related concepts, theoretical and
phenomenological frameworks, and experimental phenomena such as turbulence,
$1/f$ noise, dynamical complexity, chaos and the butterfly effect, the Richter
scale for earthquakes and the scale-free statistics of other sudden processes,
self-organization and pattern formation, self-organized criticality, etc.
Although several successful approaches to various realizations of DLRO have
been established, the universal theoretical understanding of this phenomenon
remained elusive. The possibility of constructing a unified theory of DLRO has
emerged recently within the approximation-free supersymmetric theory of
stochastics (STS). There, DLRO is the spontaneous breakdown of the topological
or de Rham supersymmetry that all stochastic differential equations (SDEs)
possess. This theory may be interesting to researchers with very different
backgrounds because the ubiquitous DLRO is a truly interdisciplinary entity.
The STS is also an interdisciplinary construction. This theory is based on
dynamical systems theory, cohomological field theories, the theory of
pseudo-Hermitian operators, and the conventional theory of SDEs. Reviewing the
literature on all these mathematical disciplines can be time-consuming. As
such, a concise and self-contained introduction to the STS, the goal of this
paper, may be useful.
