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We introduce a general procedure for computing higher-order moments of correlation functions in open quantum systems, extending the scope of our recent work on Memory Kernel Coupling Theory (MKCT) [W. Liu, Y. Su, Y. Wang, and W. Dou,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Rui-Hao Bi , Wei Liu , Wenjie Dou

Recursive learning -- where models are trained on data generated by previous versions of themselves -- is increasingly common in large language models, autonomous agents, and self-supervised systems. However, standard performance metrics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhipeng Zhang

Neuroscience research has made immense progress over the last decade, but our understanding of the brain remains fragmented and piecemeal: the dream of probing an arbitrary brain region and automatically reading out the information encoded…

The cytoskeleton is essential for the maintenance of cell morphology in eukaryotes. In fission yeast for example, polarized growth sites are organized by actin whereas microtubules (MT) acting upstream control where growth occurs (La…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2009-03-30 Dietrich Foethke , Tatyana Makushok , Damian Brunner , Francois Nedelec

Emerging evidence shows that the modular organization of the human brain allows for better and efficient cognitive performance. Many of these cognitive functions are very fast and occur in subsecond time scale such as the visual object…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-01 J. Rizkallah , P. Benquet , A. Kabbara , O. Dufor , F. Wendling , M. Hassan

Metastable brain dynamics are characterized by abrupt, jump-like modulations so that the neural activity in single trials appears to unfold as a sequence of discrete, quasi-stationary states. Evidence that cortical neural activity unfolds…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-20 Giancarlo La Camera , Alfredo Fontanini , Luca Mazzucato

Quantum machine learning algorithms have emerged to be a promising alternative to their classical counterparts as they leverage the power of quantum computers. Such algorithms have been developed to solve problems like electronic structure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Manas Sajjan , Shree Hari Sureshbabu , Sabre Kais

Adaptive behavior, cognition and emotion are the result of a bewildering variety of brain spatiotemporal activity patterns. An important problem in neuroscience is to understand the mechanism by which the human brain's 100 billion neurons…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-05-09 Paul Expert , Renaud Lambiotte , Dante R. Chialvo , Kim Christensen , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen , David J. Sharp , Federico Turkheimer

The cellular cytoskeleton is an active material, driven out of equilibrium by molecular motor proteins. It is not understood how the collective behaviors of cytoskeletal networks emerge from the properties of the network's constituent motor…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-19 Peter J. Foster , Wen Yan , Sebastian Fürthauer , Michael J. Shelley , Daniel J. Needleman

There are many blank areas in understanding the brain dynamics and especially how it gives rise to consciousness. Quantum mechanics is believed to be capable of explaining the enigma of conscious experience, however till now there is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Danko D. Georgiev

We present a systematic study of the influence of cell geometry on the orientational distribution of microtubules (MTs) nucleated from a single microtubule organizing center (MTOC). For simplicity we consider an elliptical cell geometry, a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-30 Panayiotis Foteinopoulos , Bela M. Mulder

The scientific approach to understand the nature of consciousness revolves around the study of human brain. Neurobiological studies that compare the nervous system of different species have accorded highest place to the humans on account of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-28 Dayal Pyari Srivastava , Vishal Sahni , Prem Saran Satsangi

In this paper, we review the different memristive threshold logic (MTL) circuits that are inspired from the synaptic action of flow of neurotransmitters in the biological brain. Brain like generalisation ability and area minimisation of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Akshay Kumar Maan , Deepthi Anirudhan Jayadevi , Alex Pappachen James

The mode-coupling theory (MCT) of the glass transition ranks among the most successful first-principles kinetic theories to describe glassy dynamics. However, MCT does not fully account for crucial aspects of the dynamics near the glass…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-22 Ilian Pihlajamaa , Liesbeth M. C. Janssen

Large language models often solve complex reasoning tasks more effectively with Chain-of-Thought (CoT), but at the cost of long, low-bandwidth token sequences. Humans, by contrast, often reason softly by maintaining a distribution over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Yao Tang , Li Dong , Yaru Hao , Qingxiu Dong , Furu Wei , Jiatao Gu

At its core, Quantum Mechanics is a theory developed to describe fundamental observations in the spectroscopy of solids and gases. Despite these practical roots, however, quantum theory is infamous for being highly counterintuitive, largely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Emmanuel Flurin , Leigh S. Martin , Shay Hacohen-Gourgy , Irfan Siddiqi

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has emerged as a foundational technique for eliciting reasoning from Large Language Models (LLMs), yet the robustness of this approach to corruptions in intermediate reasoning steps remains poorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan , Mayank Kejriwal

Thinking Tokens (TT) have been proposed as an unsupervised method to facilitate reasoning in language models. However, despite their conceptual appeal, our findings show that TTs marginally improves performance and consistently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Sreeram Vennam , David Valente , David Herel , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Superconducting qubits are one of the most advanced candidates to realize scalable and fault-tolerant quantum computing. Despite recent significant advancements in the qubit lifetimes, the origin of the loss mechanism for state-of-the-art…

This paper presents a hypothesis that consciousness is a natural result of neurons that become connected recursively, and work synchronously between short and long term memories. Such neurons demonstrate qubit-like properties, each…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-26 John Robert Burger