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Backpropagation is typically presented as a symbolic procedure: a backward pass topologically distinct from inference, with non-local error signals and synchronous global clocking, features with no clear analog in physical reality. Existing…

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We consider composite quantum-dynamical systems that can be partitioned into weakly interacting subsystems, similar to system-bath type situations. Using a factorized wave function ansatz, we mathematically characterize dynamical scale…

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Two approaches to calculations' minimization in High Energy Physics are considered. The first one is the method of covariant calculations for the amplitudes of processes with polarized Dirac particles. The second one connects with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander L. Bondarev

The analytic physics, when it is development from aprioristic form, constructs all the laws from the Hamilton principle, also called action principle. According to this principle all systems are characterized by a magnitude called action…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Ordaz Romay

We study the numerical behaviour of a particle method for gradient flows involving linear and nonlinear diffusion. This method relies on the discretisation of the energy via non-overlapping balls centred at the particles. The resulting…

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Dirac particle represents a fundamental constituent of our nature. Simulation of Dirac particle dynamics by a controllable quantum system using quantum walks will allow us to investigate the non-classical nature of dynamics in its discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Arindam Mallick , Sanjoy Mandal , Anirban Karan , C. M. Chandrashekar

The image of physics is connected with simple "mechanical" deterministic events: that an apple always falls down, that force equals mass times acceleleration. Indeed, applications of such concept to social or historical problems go back two…

Popular Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 Dietrich Stauffer

Cell state determination is the outcome of intrinsically stochastic biochemical reactions. Tran- sitions between such states are studied as noise-driven escape problems in the chemical species space. Escape can occur via multiple possible…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Roberto de la Cruz , Ruben Perez-Carrasco , Pilar Guerrero , Tomas Alarcon , Karen M. Page

Physical reasoning is a core aspect of intelligence in animals and humans. A central question is what model should be used as a basis for reasoning. Existing work considered models ranging from intuitive physics and physical simulators to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Marc Toussaint , Jung-Su Ha , Danny Driess

The output of molecular dynamics simulations is high-dimensional, and the degrees of freedom among the atoms are related in intricate ways. Therefore, a variety of analysis frameworks have been introduced in order to distill complex motions…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-06 Brooke E. Husic , Frank Noé

Numerous cutting-edge scientific technologies originate at the laboratory scale, but transitioning them to practical industry applications is a formidable challenge. Traditional pilot projects at intermediate scales are costly and…

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When humans interact with learning-based control systems, a common goal is to minimize a cost function known only to the human. For instance, an exoskeleton may adapt its assistance in an effort to minimize the human's metabolic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jason T. Isa , Lillian J. Ratliff , Samuel A. Burden

Returning a system to a desired state under a force field involves a thermodynamic cost, i.e., {\it work}. This cost fluctuates for a small-scale system from one experimental realization to another. We introduce a general framework to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-07 Deepak Gupta , Carlos A. Plata

This paper describes a path integral formulation of the free energy principle. The ensuing account expresses the paths or trajectories that a particle takes as it evolves over time. The main results are a method or principle of least action…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-09-25 Karl Friston , Lancelot Da Costa , Dalton A. R. Sakthivadivel , Conor Heins , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Maxwell Ramstead , Thomas Parr

Starting from the Dirac equation in external electromagnetic and torsion fields we derive a path integral representation for the corresponding propagator. An effective action, which appears in the representation, is interpreted as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Bodo Geyer , Dmitry Gitman , Ilya Shapiro

It is well known that, in the five-dimensional scenario of braneworld and space-time-mass theories, geodesic motion in 5D is observed to be non-geodesic in 4D. Usually, the discussion is purely geometric and based on the dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Ponce de Leon

The problem of function approximation by neural dynamical systems has typically been approached in a top-down manner: Any continuous function can be approximated to an arbitrary accuracy by a sufficiently complex model with a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Tanya Veeravalli , Maxim Raginsky

Plastic deformation of most crystalline materials is due to the motion of lattice dislocations. Therefore, the simulation of the interaction and dynamics of these defects has become state-of-the-art method to study work hardening, size…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-02 Gábor Péterffy , Péter Dusán Ispánovity

The Green's function method has applications in several fields in Physics, from classical differential equations to quantum many-body problems. In the quantum context, Green's functions are correlation functions, from which it is possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 Mariana M. Odashima , Beatriz G. Prado , E. Vernek

The solution with respect to the reduced action of the one-dimensional stationary quantum Hamilton-Jacobi equation is well known in the literature. The extension to higher dimensions in the separated variable case was proposed in…

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