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most citedIs stochastic thermodynamics the key to understanding the energy costs of computation?

45 citations · 45 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.bio-ph2026

Mutual Information in High-Dimensional Neural Coding

Zimo Li, Yuchang Tian, Matthew P. Leighton +1

Estimating mutual information in large neural populations is limited by the exponential growth of possible neural response patterns. Here we apply a Monte Carlo framework to make t…

q-bio.NC2026

Irreversible behavior drives neural flows in the hippocampus

Kaiyue Shi, Christopher W. Lynn

In the brain, neural activity undergoes directed flows between states, thus breaking time-reversal symmetry. At the same time, animals also exhibit irreversible flows between behav…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Tractable Model for Tunable Non-Markovian Dynamics

Matthew P. Leighton, Christopher W. Lynn

Non-Markovian dynamics are ubiquitous across physics, biology, and engineering. Yet our understanding of non-Markovian processes significantly lags that of simpler Markovian proces…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Decomposing Non-Markovian History Dependence

Matthew P. Leighton, Christopher W. Lynn

Non-Markovian stochastic processes are ubiquitous in biology. Nevertheless, we lack a general framework for quantifying historical dependencies. In this Letter, we propose an infor…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 45 cited

Is stochastic thermodynamics the key to understanding the energy costs of computation?

David Wolpert, Jan Korbel, Christopher Lynn +16

The relationship between the thermodynamic and computational characteristics of dynamical physical systems has been a major theoretical interest since at least the 19th century, an…