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What did Erwin Mean? The Physics of Information from the Materials Genomics of Aperiodic Crystals and Water to Molecular Information Catalysts and Life
Dowman P. Varn, James P. Crutchfield
Erwin Schrodinger famously and presciently ascribed the vehicle transmitting the hereditary information underlying life to an `aperiodic crystal'. We compare and contrast this, onl…
Understanding and Designing Complex Systems: Response to "A framework for optimal high-level descriptions in science and engineering---preliminary report"
James P. Crutchfield, Ryan G. James, Sarah Marzen +1
We recount recent history behind building compact models of nonlinear, complex processes and identifying their relevant macroscopic patterns or "macrostates". We give a synopsis of…
Diffraction Patterns of Layered Close-packed Structures from Hidden Markov Models
P. M. Riechers, D. P. Varn, J. P. Crutchfield
We recently derived analytical expressions for the pairwise (auto)correlation functions (CFs) between modular layers (MLs) in close-packed structures (CPSs) for the wide class of s…
Chaotic Crystallography: How the physics of information reveals structural order in materials
Dowman P. Varn, James P. Crutchfield
We review recent progress in applying information- and computation-theoretic measures to describe material structure that transcends previous methods based on exact geometric symme…
Pairwise Correlations in Layered Close-Packed Structures
P. M. Riechers, D. P. Varn, J. P. Crutchfield
Given a description of the stacking statistics of layered close-packed structures in the form of a hidden Markov model, we develop analytical expressions for the pairwise correlati…
From Finite to Infinite Range Order via Annealing: The Causal Architecture of Deformation Faulting in Annealed Close-Packed Crystals
D. P. Varn, J. P. Crutchfield
We analyze solid-state phase transformations that occur in zinc-sulfide crystals during annealing using a random deformation-faulting mechanism with a very simple interaction betwe…