Autocatalytic Hysteresis Memory Cell / report.json
Mechanism failed
1{
2 "idea": "Autocatalytic Hysteresis Memory Cell",
3 "worked": false,
4 "reason": "The mechanism's quantitative predictions were not all confirmed.",
5 "math_predictions": {
6 "fixed_point_stability": {
7 "predicted": "outer roots stable and middle root unstable",
8 "observed": "derivatives [-10.2667, 5.1333, -10.2667] at gamma=-4.4741; this holds for three real roots",
9 "qualification": "the roots are [-0.9324, 1.3333, 3.5990], so only two are nonnegative; the claimed nonnegative bistability is absent"
10 },
11 "frequency_peak": {
12 "predicted": "peak near omega*tau=1",
13 "observed": "maximum sampled area 12.4065 at omega*tau=0.9487",
14 "status": "confirmed for this forcing"
15 },
16 "low_frequency_limit": {
17 "predicted": "area tends to zero when omega*tau is much less than one",
18 "observed": "area=106.06 at omega*tau=0.03 versus 12.41 near 0.95",
19 "status": "failed; slow forcing crosses folds and produces rate-independent hysteresis"
20 },
21 "noise_turnover": {
22 "predicted": "noise initially enhances switching then destroys coherent hysteresis",
23 "observed": "area increased monotonically from 12.34 at D=0 to 13.07 at D=0.02",
24 "status": "not observed in tested range"
25 }
26 },
27 "mini_experiment": {
28 "baseline_linear_accuracy": 1.0,
29 "cell_accuracy": 1.0,
30 "interpretation": "The toy task is trivially separable and provides no advantage for the cell."
31 },
32 "parameters": {"alpha": 4.0, "beta": 0.2, "seed": 1349},
33 "files": ["experiment.py", "results.json", "report.json"]
34}