collaborators

5 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

On the Information Required for Feedback Control

Matthew P. Leighton, Jose M. Betancourt, Thierry Emonet +2

Biological systems across scales, along with many engineering problems, must control noisy systems with limited information. Here we study information-limited feedback control of s…

physics.bio-ph2026

Discrete turn strategies emerge in information-limited navigation

Jose M. Betancourt, Matthew P. Leighton, Thierry Emonet +2

Navigation up a smooth sensory gradient is one of the simplest behavioural tasks, and some organisms solve it by making continuous adjustments to their course. Bacteria instead emp…

physics.bio-ph2026

In-vivo entropy production of A. subaru

Yu Fu, Emmy Dobson, Benjamin B. Machta +1

Entropy production is often used as a proxy for energy consumption of a non-equilibrium system. Lower bounds can be estimated from coarse-grained observations, and this has been do…

physics.bio-ph2026

On the Analytic Origin of Two Species of Cochlear Eigenmodes

Asheesh S. Momi, Isabella R. Graf, Michael C. Abbott +1

After entering the ear, sound waves propagate as surface waves along the cochlea's basilar membrane. In recent work, we showed numerically that the system supports two types of mod…

physics.bio-ph2024

Hair cells in the cochlea must tune resonant modes to the edge of instability without destabilizing collective modes

Asheesh S. Momi, Michael C. Abbott, Julian Rubinfien +2

Sound produces surface waves along the cochlea's basilar membrane. To achieve the ear's astonishing frequency resolution and sensitivity to faint sounds, dissipation in the cochlea…