Quantum Physics of Living Matter
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2012) | Viewed by 494
Special Issue Editors
Interests: synchrotron radiation research; protein fluctuations; active sites of metalloproteins; origin of life; selected molecules in prebiotic world; quantum phenomena in complex matter; quantum confinement; superstripes in complex matter; lattice complexity in transition metal oxides; high Tc superconductors; valence fluctuation materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today at the beginning of the second tens of the XXI century, the most challenging step for science is to understand the living state of matter. In fact the molecular ingredients and the networks of molecular interactions essential to drive non living molecular matter to the living state have been identified. Understanding photosynthesis, evolution, and the cell behavior, the flow of information in the cell, feedback loops among multi-spatial and multi-temporal scales, cooperative and coherentfluctuations of protein, bio-molecular motors, and neurons, require new statistical physical ideas and a tremendous interdisciplinary effort is needed to overcome the difficulty of the problem.
Quantum phenomena in living systems are emerging recently and require a cross-fertilization between the advances in different fields. Several authors have proposed a non trivial role of quantum mechanics in the non-equilibrium physical state of living matter. In this issue, therefore, we would like to invite scholars who have embraced such an interdisciplinary approach in their research activity in this field to present their results.
Prof. Dr. Antonio Bianconi
Mr. Nicola Poccia
Guest Editors
Keywords
- living matter
- life
- cell
- neurons
- bio-molecular motors
- evolution
- networks
- out of equilibrium statistical physics
- complexity
- quantum phenomena
