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The Cluster Variation Method: A Primer for Neuroscientists

Brain Sciences, 2016
Effective Brain–Computer Interfaces (BCIs) require that the time-varying activation patterns of 2-D neural ensembles be modelled. The cluster variation method (CVM) offers a means for the characterization of 2-D local pattern distributions.
Alianna J. Maren
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Concepts, Challenges and Successes in Modeling Thermodynamics of Metabolism

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2014
The modeling of the chemical reactions involved in metabolism is a daunting task. Ideally, the modeling of metabolism would use kinetic simulations, but these simulations require knowledge of the thousands of rate constants involved in the reactions. The
William R. Cannon
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Macroscopic thermodynamics of equilibrium characterized by power-law canonical distributions

, 2000
Macroscopic thermodynamics of equilibrium is constructed for systems obeying power-law canonical distributions. With this, the connection between macroscopic thermodynamics and microscopic statistical thermodynamics is generalized.
A. K Rajagopal, Abe S., Abe S., Abe S., Khinchin A. I., Kubo R., S Abe, S. Abe, Taguchi Y.-H.   +8 more
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Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Liquids and Crystals

Entropy, 2021
Thermodynamic phases are the most prominent manifestation of emergent behavior [...]
Santi Prestipino
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Virial statistical description of non-extensive hierarchical systems [PDF]

, 2006
In a first part the scope of classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics is discussed in the broader context of formal dynamical systems, including computer programmes. In this context classical thermodynamics appears as a particular theory suited
Antonov, Coleman, Daniel Pfenniger, Falconer, Fermi, Gemmer, Gross, Hénon, Larson, Laskar, Lynden-Bell, Lynden-Bell, Mandelbrot, Nugeyre, Padmanabhan, Pfenniger, Scalo, Shannon, Tribus   +18 more
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Gravitational Thermodynamics of Space-time Foam in One-loop Approximation [PDF]

, 1999
We show from one-loop quantum gravity and statistical thermodynamics that the thermodynamics of quantum foam in flat space-time and Schwarzschild space-time is exactly the same as that of Hawking-Unruh radiation in thermal equilibrium. This means we show
Coleman S., Hawking S. W., LIAO LIU, Liu L., Unruh W. G., YONGGE MA   +5 more
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Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics

Philosophy of Physics
The use of statistical methods to model gravitational systems is crucial to physics practice, but yet the extent to which thermodynamics and statistical mechanics genuinely apply to these systems is a contentious issue.
Lorenzo Lorenzetti
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Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Induced Liouville Gravity [PDF]

, 1999
In this paper we describe a Liouville gravity which is induced by a set of quantum fields (constituents) and represents a two-dimensional analog of Sakharov's induced gravity.
Frolov, V., Fursaev, D., Gegenberg, J., Kunstatter, G.   +3 more
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Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Small Systems

Entropy, 2018
A challenging frontier in modern statistical physics is concerned with systems with a small number of degrees of freedom, far from the thermodynamic limit.[...]
Andrea Puglisi, Alessandro Sarracino, Angelo Vulpiani   +2 more
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The Smoluchowski Ensemble—Statistical Mechanics of Aggregation

Entropy, 2020
We present a rigorous thermodynamic treatment of irreversible binary aggregation. We construct the Smoluchowski ensemble as the set of discrete finite distributions that are reached in fixed number of merging events and define a probability measure on ...
Themis Matsoukas
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