Reposted by Licheng Zou
New paper out! Ever aligned biological trajectories at the “moment it’s done”? Turns out that trick secretly adds a fictitious force. We show when you can (and can’t) identify the real mechanism. Coolest bit: to reveal it, you have to travel against the arrow of time. link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...
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Landscape of Target State Directed Processes in Living Systems
Reverse-time stochastic dynamics, distinct from the forward-time dynamics widely used in stochastic thermodynamics, is fundamental for understanding the directed, goal-reaching dynamics that are a com...