Statistical mechanics meets single-cell biology

AE Teschendorff, AP Feinberg - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell omics is transforming our understanding of cell biology and disease, yet the
systems-level analysis and interpretation of single-cell data faces many challenges. In this …

Restricted Boltzmann machine: Recent advances and mean-field theory

A Decelle, C Furtlehner - Chinese Physics B, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This review deals with restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) under the light of statistical
physics. The RBM is a classical family of machine learning (ML) models which played a …

Observation of universal ageing dynamics in antibiotic persistence

Y Kaplan, S Reich, E Oster, S Maoz, I Levin-Reisman… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Stress responses allow cells to adapt to changes in external conditions by activating specific
pathways. Here we investigate the dynamics of single cells that were subjected to acute …

TAP free energy, spin glasses and variational inference

Z Fan, S Mei, A Montanari - 2021 - projecteuclid.org
Abstract We consider the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses with
ferromagnetically biased couplings. For a specific choice of the couplings mean, the …

Transient chaotic dimensionality expansion by recurrent networks

C Keup, T Kühn, D Dahmen, M Helias - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Neurons in the brain communicate with spikes, which are discrete events in time and value.
Functional network models often employ rate units that are continuously coupled by analog …

The effective role of diamagnetic Pb ions in tailoring the magnetic and dielectric properties of BiFeO3 nanomultiferroic

SF Mansour, MM Karamany, R Al-Wafi… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Springer
The potential applications of multiferroics render them a prominent research topic as well as
attractive material for many applications especially for spintronics. In this context trials to …

Study of physical properties of a ferrimagnetic spinel Cu 1.5 Mn 1.5 O 4: spin dynamics, magnetocaloric effect and critical behavior

A Hadded, J Massoudi, S Gharbi, E Dhahri, A Tozri… - RSC …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The present work reports a detailed study of the spin dynamics, magnetocaloric effect and
critical behaviour near the magnetic phase transition temperature, of a ferrimagnetic spinel …

Dipole ordering of water molecules in cordierite: Monte Carlo simulations

VA Abalmasov - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Electric dipoles of water molecules, enclosed singly in regularly spaced nanopores of a
cordierite crystal, become ordered at low temperature due to their mutual interaction and …

On the equivalence between the kinetic Ising model and discrete autoregressive processes

C Campajola, F Lillo, P Mazzarisi… - Journal of Statistical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Binary random variables are the building blocks used to describe a large variety of systems,
from magnetic spins to financial time series and neuron activity. In statistical physics the …

Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model for spin glasses: Solution via the distributional zeta function method

CD Rodríguez-Camargo, EA Mojica-Nava, NF Svaiter - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We discuss the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick mean-field version of a spin glass within the
distributional zeta function method (DZFM). In the DZFM, since the dominant contribution to …