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Quantum-like modeling (QLM) - quantum theory applications outside of physics - are intensively developed with applications in biology, cognition, psychology, and decision-making. For cognition, QLM should be distinguished from quantum…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-16 Andrei Khrennikov , Makiko Yamada

It is believed that one of the first useful applications for a quantum computer will be the preparation of groundstates of molecular Hamiltonians. A crucial task involving state preparation and readout is obtaining physical observables of…

Quantum computing and the workings of the brain have many aspects in common and have been attracting increasing attention in academia and industry. The computation in both is parallel and non-discrete. Though the underlying physical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-14 Yasunao Katayama

Perceptions and actions, thoughts and memories result from coordinated activity in hundreds or even thousands of neurons in the brain. It is an old dream of the physics community to provide a statistical mechanics description for these and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-04 Leenoy Meshulam , William Bialek

We propose a neural network model of multi-neuron interacting system that simulates neurons to interact each other through the surroundings of neuronal cell bodies. We physically model the neuronal cell surroundings, include the dendrites,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-05 Yu-Juan Sun , Wei-Min Zhang

This work presents a formulation to express and optimize stochastic neural networks as quantum circuits in gate-based quantum computing. Motivated by a classical perceptron, stochastic neurons are introduced and combined into a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Bodo Rosenhahn , Tobias J. Osborne , Christoph Hirche

In both quantum mechanics and relativity theory, the concept of the observer plays a critical role. However, there is no consensus on the definition of observer in these theories. Following Einstein's thought experiments, one could ask:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Marcin Nowakowski

This paper describes a framework for modeling the interface between perception and memory on the algorithmic level of analysis. It is consistent with phenomena associated with many different brain regions. These include view-dependence (and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Joel Z. Leibo , Julien Cornebise , Sergio Gómez , Demis Hassabis

We propose a general framework to extract microscopic interactions from raw configurations with deep neural networks. The approach replaces the modeling Hamiltonian by the neural networks, in which the interaction is encoded. It can be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Lingxiao Wang , Yin Jiang , Kai Zhou

We have constructed a simple semiclassical model of neural network where neurons have quantum links with one another in a chosen way and affect one another in a fashion analogous to action potentials. We have examined the role of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-11 Fariel Shafee

In this paper, we discuss a geometrodynamical approach to particle physics, in which quantum mechanics is no more than an approximated model of nature in the microscopic scale. We derive quantum mechanics from the concept of non-local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-05 Tomer Shushi

Neural mass models describe the mean-field dynamics of populations of neurons. In this work we illustrate how fundamental ideas of physics, such as energy and conserved quantities, can be explored for such models. We show that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-15 Daniele Andrean , Morten Gram Pedersen

Global entanglement in quantum many-body systems is inherently nonlocal, raising the question of whether it can be inferred from local observations. We investigate this problem in monitored quantum circuits, where projective measurements…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-24 Javad Vahedi , Stefan Kettemann

The human brain is a complex system composed of a network of hundreds of billions of discrete neurons that are coupled through time dependent synapses. Simulating the entire brain is a daunting challenge. Here, we show how ideas from…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-11-07 Siwei Qiu , Carson Chow

Topological data analyses are rapidly turning into key tools for quantifying large volumes of neurobiological data, e.g., for organizing the spiking outputs of large neuronal ensembles and thus gaining insights into the information produced…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-18 Yuri Dabaghian

Recent work emphasizes that the maximum entropy principle provides a bridge between statistical mechanics models for collective behavior in neural networks and experiments on networks of real neurons. Most of this work has focused on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-05 Gasper Tkacik , Olivier Marre , Thierry Mora , Dario Amodei , Michael J. Berry , William Bialek

The Hopfield model is a paradigmatic model of neural networks that has been analyzed for many decades in the statistical physics, neuroscience, and machine learning communities. Inspired by the manifold hypothesis in machine learning, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-01 Matteo Negri , Clarissa Lauditi , Gabriele Perugini , Carlo Lucibello , Enrico Malatesta

Many models used in artificial intelligence and cognitive science rely on multi-element patterns stored in "slots" - dedicated storage locations - in a digital computer. As biological brains likely lack slots, we consider how they might…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Shaunak Bhandarkar , James L. McClelland

Conceptual and mathematical models of neurons have lagged behind empirical understanding for decades. Here we extend previous work in modeling biological systems with fully scale-independent quantum information-theoretic tools to develop a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-21 Chris Fields , James F. Glazebrook , Michael Levin

We demonstrate that any Euclidean-time quantum mechanical theory may be represented as a neural network, ensured by the Kosambi-Karhunen-Lo\`eve theorem, mean-square path continuity, and finite two-point functions. The additional constraint…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-09 Christian Ferko , James Halverson