# gst: delay coordinates synchronization and induces abrupt transition in excitable networks.

<< ️Neuronal communication is inherently time-delayed, due to the finite speed of signal propagation. Although often considered challenging or disruptive, such time delays can also endow neural circuits with useful capabilities. Here, (AA) show that delays in excitatory connections between excitable neurons coordinate their synchronization patterns by creating self-sustained oscillations that may be out-of-phase or in-phase. The emergence of these oscillations leads to an abrupt, explosive, transition to in-phase synchronized regimes due to small changes in connection strength or time-delay. >>

<< ️(They) describe the mechanism underlying these phenomena as an interaction between the neuron's excitable dynamics and the delay in signal transmission, explaining many aspects of how the oscillations emerge. (They) show this phenomenon in different network connectivities, neuronal models, with and without excitation, with and without noise, highlighting the generality of the mechanism. >>

Bruno R.R. Boaretto, Kalel L. Rossi, Lyle E. Muller, et al. Delay coordinates synchronization and induces abrupt transition in excitable networks. arXiv: 2606.21703v1 [q-bio.NC]. Jun 19, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21703

Also: network, brain, pause, noise, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, networks, brain, pause, noise, transitions, neuronal communication, time delay, synchronization patterns, self-sustained oscillations.

# brain: apropos of persistent exploratory predisposition, chaotic pigeons are helping redefine what we know about learning.

<< ️Pigeons seem to defy a century-old psychology law about how rewards and consequences help us learn. >>

<< ️New research suggests the birds themselves avoid stability in their decision-making, instead choosing to live “at the edge of chaos.” As model species for learning and behavior, these birds are helping researchers test a century-old law about how humans and other creatures learn. >>

<< ️When learning something new, people and animals alike tend to repeat behaviors that are rewarded. First proposed by Edward Thorndike in 1898, this principle is so well established in psychology that it's become known as the law of effect. But the law implies that beyond making a behavior more frequent, rewards also make it more consistent: reducing variability in the specific way behaviors are performed over time. >>

<< ️Edward A. Wasserman and his colleagues decided to put it to the test in pigeons—a species that has been integral to the study of learning at the university’s Comparative Cognition Laboratory for more than 50 years. And the study’s results, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, suggest these birds experience variability as the spice of life. >>

<< ️You could argue the birds are just utterly resistant to locking into anything stable. >> Edward A. Wasserman.

<< ️this paper leaves open many questions about the [neurological] mechanisms for future scientists to explore. >> Aaron Blaisdell.

K. R. Callaway, Sarah Lewin Frasier. Chaotic pigeons are helping redefine what we know about learning. SciAm. Jun 30, 2026. 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chaotic-pigeons-are-helping-redefine-what-we-know-about-learning

Wasserman E.A., Orr O.R.P., Li S. Variability, stability, and the law of effect. J. of Exp. Psychol: Animal Learning and Cognition, 52(3), 129–138. Jul 2026. 

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-47688-001

Also: brain, neuro, behav, curiosity, game, Nomads, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: brain, behavior, curiosity, games, Nomads.

# aibot: critical percolation as a synthetic data model for interpretability.

<< ️Neural networks learn features that reflect the hierarchical, multi-scale structure of natural data. Synthetic datasets used to evaluate interpretability methods typically lack this structure, limiting their value as realistic toy models. >>

<< ️To close this gap, (AA) introduce a family of synthetic datasets consisting of hierarchical functions defined on critical mean-field percolation clusters embedded in a high-dimensional data space. The percolation data consists of sparse, low-dimensional fractal clusters with a power-law size distribution. Latent variables modeling a taxonomic hierarchy generate each data point's target value. >>

<< The data model is analytically tractable with known critical exponents that fix its properties without requiring hyperparameter tuning. (They) leverage a mapping between percolation clusters, random trees, and additive coalescence to propose an almost linear-time algorithm to jointly sample a random tree and its hierarchical latent decomposition, enabling data generation at arbitrary scale. >>

<< ️Using probing experiments, (AA) find that the model's ground-truth latent variables can be linearly decoded from neural network activations. Together, sparsity, self-similarity, power-law statistics, and analytical tractability make critical percolation a principled testbed for interpretability research. >>

Aryeh Brill, Tom Ingebretsen Carlson. Critical Percolation as a Synthetic Data Model for Interpretability. arXiv: 2606.20347v1 [cs.LG]. Jun 18, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20347

Also: ai, artificial intell, bot, network, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, ai, artificial intell, bot, networks, neural networks, percolation, criticality, critical percolation, critical mean-field percolation clusters, interpretability research, random trees, fractals, hierarchical latent decomposition, sparsity, self-similarity, power-law statistics.

# gst: localization pattern of a mobile impurity in the disordered Kitaev chain.

<< (AA) study a mobile impurity coupled to a Kitaev chain with chemical-potential disorder and ask whether the impurity behavior distinguishes different regimes of the host system. Exact diagonalization calculations for small periodic chains shows that in the deep topological regime the impurity localizes only partially, with a smooth increase of IPR_d, whereas in the deep trivial regime it undergoes a much sharp transition to nearly single-site localization. >>

<< For open chains at strong interaction, DMRG shows edge-localized impurity density near the Kitaev sweet spot. With increasing chemical potential, the impurity weight spreads into the bulk and eventually becomes almost uniform. (They) explain the edge preference analytically from the Majorana-dimer structure: a bulk impurity rearranges two neighboring dimers, while an edge impurity affects only one. >>

<< Disorder competes with this clean edge bias and can pin the impurity in the bulk. Thus, the impurity is sensitive to the regime of the host system, although (AA) do not find a strict one-to-one correspondence between the impurity localization pattern and the host topology. Instead, the disorder-averaged behavior suggests only an indirect correlation between impurity localization and the underlying phase of the chain. >>

A.V. Sadovnikov, A.N. Rubtsov. 

Localization pattern of a mobile impurity in the disordered Kitaev chain. arXiv: 2606.21499v1 [cond-mat.str-el]. Jun 19, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21499

Also: disorder, disorder & fluctuations, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, disorder, disorder & fluctuations, mobile impurity, bulk impurity, edge impurity, deep topological regime, deep trivial regime. 

# gst: uncertainty growth in stably stratified turbulence.

<< ️(AA) investigate uncertainty growth and chaotic dynamics in statistically steady, stably stratified three-dimensional turbulence. Using direct numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations, (They) quantify the divergence of initially infinitesimal perturbations via twin simulations and decorrelator diagnostics. >>

<< ️At short times, perturbations exhibit exponential growth, allowing us to define a (largest) Lyapunov exponent. (AA) systematically examine how this exponent depends on stratification strength, quantified by the Brunt-Väisälä frequency and the Froude number, in a parameter regime relevant to oceanic flows. >>

<< (They) find that increasing stratification leads to a monotonic reduction of the Lyapunov exponent, indicating suppressed chaoticity. Despite this reduction, uncertainty growth retains the universal temporal sequence observed in homogeneous isotropic turbulence—initial decay, exponential growth, and saturation. The growth phase is characterized by self-similar decorrelator spectra, but exhibits strong anisotropy: uncertainty spreads much more slowly along the stratification direction than horizontally, with the disparity increasing with stratification strength. >>

<< ️An analysis of the decorrelator evolution equation reveals that the suppression of chaos arises primarily from strain-mediated alignment dynamics rather than direct buoyancy coupling. (AA) results provide a quantitative characterization of predictability and uncertainty growth in stratified turbulence and highlight the utility of decorrelator-based methods for anisotropic geophysical flows. >>

Mrinal Jyoti Powdel, Samriddhi Sankar Ray. Uncertainty growth in stably stratified turbulence. Phys. Rev. Fluids 11, 064615. Jun 23, 2026. 

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/xblr-vpl3

arXiv: 2512.05656v1 [physics.flu-dyn].

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05656

Also: chaos, turbulence, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, chaos, turbulence, transitions, uncertainty growth, three-dimensional turbulence, stratified turbulence, infinitesimal perturbations, stratification strength, anisotropy. 

# gst: oscillating concentrations suppress condensate coarsening.

<< ️Living cells utilize condensates to spatially concentrate molecules in response to dynamic signals. For instance, nuclear condensates respond to oscillations in transcription factor levels in the nucleoplasm, including those involved in repairing multiple DNA breaks. >>

<< ️To understand how oscillating signals affect condensates, (AA) analyze a theoretical model using numerical simulations and analytical theory. While passive dynamics would drive all molecules into a single condensate, (They) find that sufficiently fast oscillations stabilize multiple droplets, allowing control of their sizes. (They) thus reveal a new behavior of chemically active droplets, which could be exploited in synthetic applications. >>

Mathias S. Heltberg, Lukas H. Kristensen, Mogens H. Jensen, David Zwicker. Oscillating concentrations suppress condensate coarsening. arXiv: 2606.16614v1 [physics.bio-ph]. Jun 15, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16614

Also: drop, droplet, droploid, self-assembly, disorder & fluctuations, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, droploid, self-assembly, disorder & fluctuations, chemically active droplets, spatially concentration, nuclear condensate. 

# gst: chiral packings in cylinders are ultrasensitive to confinement deformation.

<< ️Sphere packings in circular cylinders have attracted substantial research interest, among which the discovery of chiral helical structures is the most iconic. However, recent experimental results on zebrafish do not match the known packing structures in circular cylinders. >>

<< ️To account for the inherent imperfections of biological tubes, (AA) take elliptic cylinders as the canonical deformation of circular cylinders and investigate the densest packings of hard spheres in them using simulation, theory, and experiments. Starting from the chiral structures in circular cylinders, (They) demonstrate that even a weak cross-sectional deformation can trigger entirely new phases, including ones that either eliminate global chirality or significantly complicate the chiral structures. ️This reveals the significant effect of cylindrical anisotropy. >>

<< ️The new helical phases under anisotropic confinement remain chiral and develop hierarchical periodic structures, which are difficult to obtain by simulations but are predicted by our newly developed theory for helical phases in elliptic cylinders. >> 

<< ️The theory also predicts double oscillated-chain phases without chirality, which perfectly match the simulations. (Their) work offers fresh insights into understanding packings in anisotropic cylinders, which will help researchers to design new materials and to understand many living systems. >>

Xuebin Wang, Jiahao Guo, Yao Li. Chiral Packings in Cylinders are Ultrasensitive to Confinement Deformation. arXiv: 2606.19082v1 [cond-mat.soft]. Jun 17, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19082

Also: chiral, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, chirality, transitions, packings, chiral helical structures, elliptic cylinders, cylindrical anisotropy, double oscillated-chain phases.