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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 17: Statistical Physics far from Thermal Equilibrium
DY 17.2: Vortrag
Dienstag, 8. März 2016, 10:15–10:30, H48
Sensory capacity: an information theoretical measure of the performance of a sensor — •David Hartich1, Andre C. Barato2, and Udo Seifert1 — 1II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Stuttgart, Germany — 2Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
For a general sensory system following an external stochastic signal, we introduce the sensory capacity [1]. This quantity characterizes the performance of a sensor: sensory capacity is maximal if the instantaneous state of the sensor has as much information about a signal as the whole time-series of the sensor. We show that adding a memory to the sensor increases the sensory capacity. This increase quantifies the improvement of the sensor with the addition of the memory. Our results are obtained with the framework of stochastic thermodynamics of bipartite systems, which allows for the definition of an efficiency that relates the rate with which the sensor learns about the signal with the energy dissipated by the sensor, which is given by the thermodynamic entropy production. We demonstrate a general tradeoff between sensory capacity and efficiency: if the sensory capacity is equal to its maximum 1, then the efficiency must be less than 1/2. As a physical realization of a sensor we consider a two component cellular network estimating a fluctuating external ligand concentration as signal. This model leads to coupled linear Langevin equations that allow us to obtain explicit analytical results.
[1] D. Hartich, A. C. Barato, and U. Seifert (2015) arXiv:1509.02111