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Quantum Aspects of Life, a book published in 2008 with a foreword by Roger Penrose, explores the open question of the role of quantum mechanics at molecular scales of relevance to biology.
- Derek Abbott, Paul Charles William Davies, Arun K. Pati
- 2008
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.
Dec 22, 2023 · Quantum aspects of life. Publication date. 2008. Topics. Quantum biochemistry, Biogenesis, Quantum Theory, Evolution, Molecular. Publisher. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
Sep 12, 2008 · World Scientific, Sep 12, 2008 - Science - 468 pages. This book presents the hotly debated question of whether quantum mechanics plays a non-trivial role in biology. In a timely way, it sets...
- 1908978732, 9781908978738
- Quantum Aspects Of Life
- World Scientific, 2008
- Early Speculations
- Photosynthesis and Ornithology
- How to Avoid Decoherence
- The Origin of Life
An early idea about quantum effects in biology was proposed by Herbert Fröhlich of the University of Liverpool, who in 1968 suggested that the modes of vibration of some membranes in the cell might exhibit the phenomenon of a Bose–Einstein condensate, in which many quanta settle into a single quantum state with long-range coherence. Bose–Einstein c...
Although the previous examples have been in the literature for many years, they have not led to a widespread acceptance that quantum physics is important for biology. However, the subject matter is sufficiently rich that I held an entire workshop on quantum biology at the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University...
Although at least some of these examples add up to a prima faciecase for quantum mechanics playing a role in biology, they all confront a serious and fundamental problem. Effects like coherence, entanglement and superposition can be maintained only if the quantum system avoids decoherence caused by interactions with its environment. In the presence...
A century and a half after Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species, the origin of life itself remains a stubborn mystery, and is deeply problematic. The simplest known living organism is already stupendously complex, and it is inconceivable that such an entity would arise spontaneously by chance self-assembly. Most researchers suppose tha...
Jan 1, 2011 · Quantum Aspects of Life tackles them head-on, and does so from many different directions. The book consists of 16 chapters by specialists and two chapters that take the form of debates, together with a Foreword by Sir Roger Penrose and a Preface by the editors which together set the scene and orientate the reader for what follows.
Dec 1, 2010 · Topics. Subatomic and elementary particles, Quantum computing, Quantum effects, Quantum biology, Living systems, Biological complexity, Photosynthesis, Books, Physicists, Conference. AAPT members receive access to the American Journal of Physics and The Physics Teacher as a member benefit.
