Quantum Aspects of Life

Quantum aspects of life
Abbott, Derek
Precio: 48,83€ Iva inc.

* Páginas : 468
* Editorial : Imperial College
* Idioma : Inglés
* Fecha de Publicación : 01/11/2008
* ISBN: 978-1-84816-267-9
* Encuadernación : Rústica
* Nº Volúmenes : 1


Contenido

This book presents the hotly debated question of whether quantum mechanics
plays a non-trivial role in biology. In a timely way, it sets out a
distinct quantum biology agenda. The burgeoning fields of nanotechnology,
biotechnology, quantum technology, and quantum information processing are
now strongly converging. The acronym BINS, for Bio-Info-Nano-Systems, has
been coined to describe the synergetic interface of these several
disciplines. The living cell is an information replicating and processing
system that is replete with naturally-evolved nanomachines, which at some
level require a quantum mechanical description. As quantum engineering and
nanotechnology meet, increasing use will be made of biological structures,
or hybrids of biological and fabricated systems, for producing novel
devices for information storage and processing and other tasks. An
understanding of these systems at a quantum mechanical level will be
indispensable.

ÍNDICE: Foreword (Sir R Penrose); Emergence and Complexity: A Quantum
Origin of Life? (P C W Davies); Quantum Mechanics and Emergence (S Lloyd);
Quantum Mechanisms in Biology: Quantum Coherence and the Search for the
First Replicator (J Al-Khalili & J McFadden); Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics
in Photosynthesis (A O Castro, F F Olsen, C F Lee & N F Johnson);
Modelling Quantum Decoherence in Biomolecules (J Bothma, J Gilmore & R H
McKenzie); The Biological Evidence: Molecular Evolution: A Role for
Quantum Mechanics in the Dynamics of Molecular Machines that Read and
Write DNA (A Goel); Memory Depends on the Cytoskeleton, but is it Quantum?
(A Mershin & D V Nanopoulos); Quantum Metabolism and Allometric Scaling
Relations in Biology (L Demetrius); Spectroscopy of the Genetic Code (J D
Bashford & P D Jarvis); Towards Understanding the Origin of Genetic
Languages (A D Patel); Artificial Quantum Life: Can Arbitrary Quantum
Systems Undergo Self-Replication? (A K Pati & S L Braunstein); A
Semi-Quantum Version of the Game of Life (A P Flitney & D Abbott);
Evolutionary Stability in Quantum Games (A Iqbal & T Cheon); Quantum
Transmemetic Intelligence (E W Piotrowski & J S?adkowski); The Debate:
Dreams versus Reality: Plenary Debate Session on Quantum Computing (For
Panel: C M Caves, D Lidar, H Brandt, A R Hamilton, Against Panel: D K
Ferry, J Gea-Banacloche, S M Bezrukov, L B Kish, Debate Chair: C R
Doering, Transcript Editor: D Abbott); Plenary Debate: Quantum Effects in
Biology: Trivial or Not? (For Panel: P C W Davies, S Hameroff, A
Zeilinger, D Abbott, Against Panel: J Eisert, H M Wiseman, S M Bezrukov, H
Frauenfelder, Debate Chair: J Gea-Banacloche, Transcript Editor: D
Abbott); Nontrivial Quantum Effects in Biology: A Skeptical Physicist’s
View (H Wiseman & J Eisert); That’s Life! — The Geometry of ? Electron
Clouds (S Hameroff).

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