title: Beyond the death of linear response: 1/f optimal information transport.
abstract: Nonergodic renewal processes have recently been shown by several authors to be insensitive to periodic perturbations, thereby apparently sanctioning the death of linear response, a building block of nonequilibrium statistical physics. We show that it is possible to go beyond the "death of linear response" and establish a permanent correlation between an external stimulus and the response of a complex network generating nonergodic renewal processes, by taking as stimulus a similar nonergodic process. The ideal condition of 1/f noise corresponds to a singularity that is expected to be relevant in several experimental conditions.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany. g.aquino@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: Gerardo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Aquino
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bologna
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grigolini
authors.forename: Bruce J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: West