Thermodynamics for a network of neurons: Signatures of criticality

Gašper Tkačik, Thierry Mora, Olivier Marre, Dario Amodei, Michael J. Berry II, and William Bialek Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Am Campus 1, A–3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, CNRS, UPMC and l’École Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, Institut de la Vision, UMRS 968 UPMC, INSERM, CNRS U7210, CHNO Quinze–Vingts, F–75012 Paris, France, Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA, Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Ave., New York, New York 10016 USA (Dated: July 23, 2014)