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physics.bio-ph2002★ 9 cited
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.,…
physics.bio-ph2002★ 27 cited
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…
cond-mat.str-el2002★ 42 cited
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…