Stochastic Field Theory of HIV Latency: Instanton Dynamics and the Path to Viral Rebound

arXiv:2609.25136 · q-bio.PE, physics.bio-ph, physics.med-ph, physics.soc-ph · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

q-bio.PE, physics.bio-ph, physics.med-ph, physics.soc-ph

Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-21

Terminology

• Computational Biology — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Effective Hamiltonian — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Stochastic Dynamics — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mean-Field Dynamics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes

Sources

• Stochastic First-Passage Theory of HIV Viral Rebound Following Latent Reservoir Reactivation

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