Confining Strings at High Temperature

We show that the high-temperature behaviour of the recently proposed confining strings reproduces exactly the correct large-N QCD result, for a large class of truncations of the long-range interaction between surface elements.Comment: 8 pages, no figure

Distinguishing signatures of determinism and stochasticity in spiking complex systems

Acknowledgements: This work was supported in part by grant FA8655-12-1-2140 from EOARD US, grant FIS2009-13360 from the Spanish MCI and grant 2009 SGR 1168 from the Generalitat de Catalunya. C. Masoller acknowledges partial support from the ICREA Academia programme. N. Rubido acknowledges the Scottish University Physics Alliance.Peer reviewedPublisher PD