Quantum Aspects Of Life
Will be published approx. on 15. September 2008
Book
Hardback
468 pages
978-1-84816-253-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
801 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84816-253-2 (9781848162532)
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Content
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 et al.); Modeling Quantum Decoherence in Biomolecules (J Bothma et al.); The Biological Evidence: Molecular Evolution (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 Stadkowski); The Debate: Dreams versus Reality: Plenary Debate Session on Quantum Computing; Plenary Debate: Quantum Effects in Biology: Trivial or Not?; Non-trivial Quantum Effects in Biology: A Skeptical Physicist's View (H Wiseman & J Eisert); That's Life! - The Geometry of ? Electron Clouds (S Hameroff).