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Information Optimization in Coupled Audio-Visual Cortical Maps
Mehran Kardar, A. Zee
Barn owls hunt in the dark by using cues from both sight and sound to locate their prey. This task is facilitated by topographic maps of the external space formed by neurons (e.g.,…
A steepest descent calculation of RNA pseudoknots
M. Pillsbury, H. Orland, A. Zee
We enumerate possible topologies of pseudoknots in single-stranded RNA molecules. We use a steepest-descent approximation in the large N matrix field theory, and a Feynman diagram…
Gapless Fermions and Quantum Order
Xiao-Gang Wen, A. Zee
Using 2D quantum spin-1/2 model as a concrete example, we studied the relation between gapless fermionic excitations (spinons) and quantum orders in some spin liquid states. Using…
Superfluidity and Superconductivity in Double-Layered Quantum Hall state
X. -G. Wen, A. Zee
We discuss and review the basic physics that leads to superfluidity/superconductivity in certain quantum Hall states, in particular the so-called double-layered (mmm) state. In the…
Generalized Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Reflectionless Fermion Bags in 1+1 Dimensions
Joshua Feinberg, A. Zee
We study static fermion bags in the 1+1 dimensional Gross-Neveu and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models. It has been known, from the work of Dashen, Hasslacher and Neveu (DHN), followed by S…
RNA Folding and Large N Matrix Theory
H. Orland, A. Zee
We formulate the RNA folding problem as an matrix field theory. This matrix formalism allows us to give a systematic classification of the terms in the partition functi…