Quantum aspects of life
By: editors, Derek Abbott, Paul C.W. Davies, Arun K. Pati ; foreword by Sir Roger Penrose.
Contributors: Abbott, Derek, 1960-; Davies, P. C. W.; Pati, Arun K.
Publisher: Imperial College Press; World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781848162532
Subjects: Quantum biochemistry; Biogenesis; Quantum Theory; Evolution, Molecular
Description: xxvi, 442 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A quantum origin of life? / Paul C.W. Davies; title: Quantum mechanics and emergence / Seth Lloyd; title: Quantum coherence and the search for the first replicator / Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden; title: Ultrafast quantum dynamics in photosynthesis / Alexandra Olaya Castro ... [et al.]; title: Modelling quantum decoherence in biomolecules / Jacques Bothma, Joel Gilmore, and Ross H. McKenzie; title: Molecular evolution / Anita Goel; title: Memory depends on the cytoskeleton, but is it quantum? / Andreas Mershin and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos; title: Quantum metabolism and allometric scaling relations in biology / Lloyd Demetrius; title: Spectroscopy of the genetic code / Jim D. Bashford and Peter D. Jarvis; title: Towards understanding the origin of genetic languages / Apoorva D. Patel; title: Can arbitrary quantum systems undergo self-replication? / Arun K. Pati and Samuel L. Braunstein; title: A semi-quantum version of the game of life / Adrian P. Flitney and Derek Abbott; title: Evolutionary stability in quantum games / Azhar Iqbal and Taksu Cheon; title: Quantum transmemetic intelligence / Edward W. Piotrowski and Jan Sladkowski; title: Dreams versus reality : plenary debate session on quantum computing; title: Plenary debate: quantum effects in biology : trivial or not?; title: Nontrivial quantum effects in biology : a skeptical physicists' view / Howard Wiseman and Jens Eisert; title: That's life! : the geometry of p electron clouds / Stuart Hameroff.