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We formulate the large deviations for a class of two scale chemical kinetic processes motivated from biological applications. The result is successfully applied to treat a genetic switching model with positive feedbacks. The corresponding…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Tiejun Li , Feng Lin

We study long-range interacting systems driven by external stochastic forces that act collectively on all the particles constituting the system. Such a scenario is frequently encountered in the context of plasmas, self-gravitating systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Cesare Nardini , Shamik Gupta , Stefano Ruffo , Thierry Dauxois , Freddy Bouchet

We analyze the macroscopic behavior of multi-populations randomly connected neural networks with interaction delays. Similar to cases occurring in spin glasses, we show that the sequences of empirical measures satisfy a large deviation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tanguy Cabana , Jonathan Touboul

Quantifying stochastic processes is essential to understand many natural phenomena, particularly in biology, including cell-fate decision in developmental processes as well as genesis and progression of cancers. While various attempts have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-28 Ying Tang , Ruoshi Yuan , Gaowei Wang , Xiaomei Zhu , Ping Ao

Accurate calculation of switching events is important for electromagnetic transient simulation to obtain reliable results. The common presumption of continuous differential state variables could prevent the accurate calculation, thus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Sheng Lei

Well-mixed chemical reaction networks (CRNs) contain many distinct chemical species with copy numbers that fluctuate in correlated ways. While those correlations are typically monitored via Monte Carlo sampling of stochastic trajectories,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-14 John P. Zima , Schuyler B. Nicholson , Todd R. Gingrich

In this work, we develop a stochastic model of gene gain and loss with the aim of inferring when (if at all) in evolutionary history and association between two genes arises. The data we consider is a species tree along with information on…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-07 Jiahao Diao , Malgorzata M. O'Reilly , Barbara R. Holland

The design of biological systems is hindered by uncertainty arising from both intrinsic stochasticity of biomolecular reactions and variability across laboratory or experimental conditions. In this work, we present a sequential framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Michal Kobiela , Diego A. Oyarzún , Michael U. Gutmann

We investigate the quantum-state transfer on spin-chian channels with random imperfections.Through combining the advantages of two known schemes, the dual-rail spin-chain channels[9] and the particular ihhomogenous spin-chain channel[10],…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 De-Xin Kong , An Min Wang

The quantum mechanical transition amplitudes are calculated perturbatively on the basis of the stochastic quantization method of Parisi and Wu. It is shown that the stochastic scheme reproduces the ordinary result for the amplitude and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuya Yuasa , Hiromichi Nakazato

This paper proposes a stochastic model using the concept of Markov chains for the inter-state transitions of the millisecond order quasi-stable phase synchronized patterns or synchrostates, found in multi-channel Electroencephalogram (EEG)…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-10-21 Wasifa Jamal , Saptarshi Das , Ioana-Anastasia Oprescu , Koushik Maharatna

Cellular transformations which involve a significant phenotypical change of the cell's state use bistable biochemical switches as underlying decision systems. In this work, we aim at linking cellular decisions taking place on a time scale…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2010-05-11 Steffen Waldherr , Jingbo Wu , Frank Allgöwer

Noise-induced switching between coexisting metastable states occurs in a wide range of far-from-equilibrium systems including micro-mechanical oscillators, epidemiological and climate change models, and nonlinear electronic transport in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 Stephen W. Teitsworth , Matthew E. Olson , Yuriy Bomze

We develop a path integral framework for determining most probable paths in a class of systems of stochastic differential equations with piecewise-smooth drift and additive noise. This approach extends the Freidlin-Wentzell theory of large…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Kaitlin Hill , Jessica Zanetell , John A Gemmer

Variational quantum algorithms are promising candidates for delivering practical quantum advantage on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. However, optimizing the noisy cost functions associated with these algorithms is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Andy C. Y. Li , Imanol Hernandez

Genetic circuit design is a well-studied problem in synthetic biology. Ever since the first genetic circuits -- the repressilator and the toggle switch -- were designed and implemented, many advances have been made in this area of research.…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-09 Debomita Chakraborty , Raghunathan Rengaswamy , Karthik Raman

We consider a type of optimal switching problems with non-uniform execution delays and ramping. Such problems frequently occur in the operation of economical and engineering systems. We first provide a solution to the problem by applying a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Magnus Perninge

Stochastic oscillations in individual cells are usually characterized by a non-monotonic power spectrum with an oscillatory autocorrelation function. Here we develop an analytical approach of stochastic oscillations in a minimal hybrid…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-08 Chen Jia , Hong Qian , Michael Q. Zhang

Biotechnology can benefit from dynamic control to improve production efficiency. In this context, optogenetics enables modulation of gene expression using light as an external input, allowing fine-tuning of protein levels to unlock dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Sebastián Espinel-Ríos

Delays and stochasticity have both served as crucially valuable ingredients in mathematical descriptions of control, physical, and biological systems. In this work, we investigate how explicitly dynamical stochasticity in delays modulates…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-10 Bhargav R. Karamched , Christopher E. Miles