Statistical thermodynamics of the human brain activity, the Hagedorn temperature and the Zipf law

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العنوان: Statistical thermodynamics of the human brain activity, the Hagedorn temperature and the Zipf law
المؤلفون: Chialvo, Dante R., Janik, Romuald A.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Quantitative Biology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantitative Biology - Neurons and Cognition, Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
الوصف: It is well established that the brain spontaneously traverses through a very large number of states. Nevertheless, despite its relevance to understanding brain function, a formal description of this phenomenon is still lacking. To this end, we introduce a machine learning based method allowing for the determination of the probabilities of all possible states at a given coarse-graining, from which all the thermodynamics can be derived. This is a challenge not unique to the brain, since similar problems are at the heart of the statistical mechanics of complex systems. This paper uncovers a linear scaling of the entropies and energies of the brain states, a behaviour first conjectured by Hagedorn to be typical at the limiting temperature in which ordinary matter disintegrates into quark matter. Equivalently, this establishes the existence of a Zipf law scaling underlying the appearance of a wide range of brain states. Based on our estimation of the density of states for large scale functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) human brain recordings, we observe that the brain operates asymptotically at the Hagedorn temperature. The presented approach is not only relevant to brain function but should be applicable for a wide variety of complex systems.
Comment: 5+4 pages
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13196
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2407.13196
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv