PHY 28B
Natural Computation and Self-Organization:
The Physics of Information Processing in Complex Systems

Jim Crutchfield
chaos@ucdavis.edu; http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos

Spring 2013
WWW: http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/ncaso/

Lecture 36: Intrinsic Computation in Complex Materials

Dowman Varn, CSC

Reading: CMR articles BTFM1 and BTFM2.

Topics:

  1. One-Dimensional materials: Physics of polytypes
  2. Planar disorder
  3. Diffraction Spectra
  4. ϵ-Machine Spectral Reconstruction
  5. Fault Structures and Causal State Cycles
  6. Zinc-Sulfide
  7. Intrinsic Computation