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Emergent Organization and Polarization due to Active Fluctuations

(2022)

Authors:

Beno卯t Mahault, Prakhar Godara, Ramin Golestanian

Symmetry and simplicity spontaneously emerge from the algorithmic nature of evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences 119:11 (2022) e2113883119

Authors:

Iain G Johnston, Kamaludin Dingle, Sam F Greenbury, Chico Q Camargo, Jonathan PK Doye, Sebastian E Ahnert, Ard A Louis

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Significance Why does evolution favor symmetric structures when they only represent a minute subset of all possible forms? Just as monkeys randomly typing into a computer language will preferentially produce outputs that can be generated by shorter algorithms, so the coding theorem from algorithmic information theory predicts that random mutations, when decoded by the process of development, preferentially produce phenotypes with shorter algorithmic descriptions. Since symmetric structures need less information to encode, they are much more likely to appear as potential variation. Combined with an arrival-of-the-frequent mechanism, this algorithmic bias predicts a much higher prevalence of low-complexity (high-symmetry) phenotypes than follows from natural selection alone and also explains patterns observed in protein complexes, RNA secondary structures, and a gene regulatory network.

Anomalous gapped boundaries between surface topological orders in higher-order topological insulators and superconductors with inversion symmetry

(2022)

Authors:

Ming-Hao Li, Titus Neupert, SA Parameswaran, Apoorv Tiwari

Comment on "Relative Diffusivities of Bound and Unbound Protein Can Control Chemotactic Directionality".

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 38:8 (2022) 2746-2747

Authors:

Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Pierre Illien, Ramin Golestanian

Coarse-Grained Entanglement and Operator Growth in Anomalous Dynamics

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 128:8 (2022) 080602

Authors:

Zongping Gong, Adam Nahum, Lorenzo Piroli