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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A Spin Glass Model of Path Integration in Rat Medial Entorhinal Cortex

   Fuhs and Touretzky · Journal of Neuroscience · 2006

   The authors describe a locally connected spin glass network that spontaneously forms hexagonal grids of activity, can encode position and perform path integration, and supports an attractor-network account of entorhinal cortex.

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   1. UncheckedIn the authors' simulation, the model cells' spatial firing fields closely resemble those of grid cells recorded in rat dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex.“The spatial firing fields of the simulated cells closely resemble those of dMEC cells.”
   2. UncheckedIn this model, adding an asymmetry lets grid-like activity bumps shift in any direction at a rate proportional to velocity, giving path integration.“Introducing an asymmetry in the model allows the activity bumps to be shifted in any direction, at a rate proportional to velocity, to achieve path integration.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

   Approaching the ground states of the random maximum two-satisfiability problem by a greedy single-spin flipping process

   Ma and Zhou · Physical Review E · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“The achieved energy density $e(t)$ decreases with the evolution time $t$ as $e(t)-e(\infty)=h (\log_{10} t)^{-z}$ with a small prefactor $h$ and a scaling coefficient $z > 1$, indicating an energy landscape with deep and rugged funnel-shape regions.”
   2. Unchecked“For the $\pm J$ Viana-Bray spin glass model, however, the greedy single-spin dynamics quickly gets trapped to a local minimal region of the energy landscape.”