Cortical phase transitions, nonequilibrium thermodynamics and the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation

DOI10.1142/S021797921250035XMaRDI QIDQ2919366zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Walter J. Freeman, Roberto Livi, Masashi Obinata, Giuseppe Vitiello

Publication date 2 October 2012

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3677

zbMATH Keywords

nonequilibrium thermodynamicstime dependent Ginzburg-Landau equationdissipative many-body model of brainphase transitions in quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Biophysics (92C05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: The formation of amplitude modulated and phase modulated assemblies of neurons is observed in the brain functional activity. The study of the formation of such structures requires that the analysis has to be organized in hierarchical levels, microscopic, mesoscopic, macroscopic, each with its characteristic space-time scales and the various forms of energy, electric, chemical, thermal produced and used by the brain. In this paper, we discuss the microscopic dynamics underlying the mesoscopic and the macroscopic levels and focus our attention on the thermodynamics of the non-equilibrium phase transitions. We obtain the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation for the non-stationary regime and consider the formation of topologically non-trivial structures such as the vortex solution. The power laws observed in functional activities of the brain is also discussed and related to coherent states characterizing the many-body dissipative model of brain.

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