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The Topological Signal Processing (TSP) framework has been recently developed to analyze signals defined over simplicial complexes, i.e. topological spaces represented by finite sets of elements that are closed under inclusion of subsets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Stefania Sardellitti , Sergio Barbarossa , Lucia Testa

In this paper we consider an interacting particle system modeled as a system of $N$ stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions with a drift term including a confining potential acting on each particle, and an interaction…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matteo Ortisi

De novo assembly enables investigations of unknown genomes, paving the way for personalized medicine and disease management. However, it faces immense computational challenges arising from the excessive data volumes and algorithmic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Heewoo Kim , Sanjay Sri Vallabh Singapuram , Haojie Ye , Joseph Izraelevitz , Trevor Mudge , Ronald Dreslinski , Nishil Talati

Driven by analogies with state vectors of quantum informatics and noise-based logic, we propose a general scheme and elements of neural circuitry for processing and addressing information in the brain. Specifically, we consider random…

General Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 S. M. Bezrukov , L. B. Kish

We introduce thermodynamic networks, a general framework for autonomous, physics-based computation using non-equilibrium steady states. These networks are modeled as a collection of finite-size reservoirs that exchange conserved…

The rapid growth of resource-constrained mobile platforms, including mobile robots, wearable systems, and Internet-of-Things devices, has increased the demand for computationally efficient neural network controllers (NNCs) that can operate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Amjad Haider , Daniel Görges

We propose a criterion for optimal parameter selection in coarse-grained models of proteins, and develop a refined elastic network model (ENM) of bovine trypsinogen. The unimodal density-of-states distribution of the trypsinogen ENM…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-09-29 Dengming Ming , Michael Wall

A steadily growing computational power is employed to perform molecular dynamics simulations of biological macromolecules, which represents at the same time an immense opportunity and a formidable challenge. In fact, large amounts of data…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-18 Margherita Mele , Roberto Covino , Raffaello Potestio

Despite advances in the programmable logic capabilities of modern trigger systems, a significant bottleneck remains in the amount of data to be transported from the detector to off-detector logic where trigger decisions are made. We…

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly influence safety-critical aspects of society, from medical diagnosis to autonomous mobility, making uncertainty awareness a central requirement for trustworthy AI. We present a photonic…

Machine-intelligence has become a driving factor in modern society. However, its demand outpaces the underlying electronic technology due to limitations given by fundamental physics such as capacitive charging of wires, but also by system…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Mario Miscuglio , Zibo Hu , Shurui Li , Jonathan George , Roberto Capanna , Philippe M. Bardet , Puneet Gupta , Volker J. Sorger

Recently, Li {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 107}, 060501 (2011)] have demonstrated that topologically protected measurement-based quantum computation can be implemented on the thermal state of a nearest-neighbor two-body Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Keisuke Fujii , Tomoyuki Morimae

During the lifecycle of a virus, viral proteins and other components self-assemble to form a symmetric protein shell called a capsid. This assembly process is subject to multiple competing constraints, including the need to form a…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-28 Guillermo R. Lazaro , Michael F. Hagan

Probabilistic circuits (PCs) have gained prominence in recent years as a versatile framework for discussing probabilistic models that support tractable queries and are yet expressive enough to model complex probability distributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires

Physical computing systems provide a promising route toward hardware-native machine learning, but their computational capabilities remain difficult to characterize in a principled, task-independent, and data-efficient way. We extend the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-22 Rahul Uma Ramachandran , Serge Massar

We address the problem of parameter estimation in models of systems biology from noisy observations. The models we consider are characterized by simultaneous deterministic nonlinear differential equations whose parameters are either taken…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-01 Xin Liu , Mahesan Niranjan

Optimization of cyclic stochastic heat engines, a topic spanning decades of research, commonly assumes fixed control or response parameters at discrete points in the cycle-a limitation that often leads to experimentally impractical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-02 Monojit Chatterjee , Viktor Holubec , Rahul Marathe

Topological quantum computers promise a fault tolerant means to perform quantum computation. Topological quantum computers use particles with exotic exchange statistics called non-Abelian anyons, and the simplest anyon model which allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Bernard Field , Tapio Simula

Complex molecules and mesoscopic structures are naturally described by general networks of elementary building blocks and tight-binding is one of the simplest quantum model suitable for studying the physical properties arising from the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Buonsante , R. Burioni , D. Cassi

Liquid computers use incompressible fluids for computational processes. Here we present experimental laboratory prototypes of liquid computers using colloids composed of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles and microspheres containing thermal…