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The question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of disciplinary perspectives brought to bear on the…

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Many biological processes have been the source of inspiration for heuristic methods that generate high-quality solutions to solve optimization and search problems. This thesis presents an epigenetic technique for Evolutionary Algorithms,…

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The linearity of quantum mechanics leads, under the assumption that the wave function offers a complete description of reality, to grotesque situations famously known as Schroedinger's cat. Ways out are either adding elements of reality or…

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Quantum technology is seeing a remarkable explosion in interest due to a wave of successful commercial technology. As a wider array of engineers and scientists are needed, it is time we rethink quantum educational paradigms. Current…

Popular Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 James Daniel Whitfield

We consider a class of nonlinear Schrodinger equation in four and five space dimensions with an attractive potential. The nonlinearity is local but rather general encompassing for the first time both subcritical and supercritical (in L2)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-22 E. Kirr , O. Mizrak

In the 1970s, the renowned physicist Victor Weisskopf famously developed a research program to qualitatively explain properties of matter in terms of the fundamental constants of physics. But there was one type of matter prominently missing…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Pankaj Mehta , Jane Kondev

The problem of unicellular-multicellular transition is one of the main issues that is discussing in evolutionary biology. In [1] the fitness of a colony of cells is considered in terms of its two basic components, viability and fecundity.…

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The stability properties and perturbation-induced dynamics of the full set of stationary states of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation are investigated numerically in two physical contexts: periodic solutions on a ring and confinement by a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Lincoln D. Carr , J. Nathan Kutz , William P. Reinhardt

The spreading and regulation of epigenetic marks on chromosomes is crucial to establish and maintain cellular identity. Nonetheless, the dynamical mechanism leading to the establishment and maintenance of a given, cell-line specific,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-08 Davide Michieletto , Enzo Orlandini , Davide Marenduzzo

This work primarily focuses on an operator inference methodology aimed at constructing low-dimensional dynamical models based on a priori hypotheses about their structure, often informed by established physics or expert insights. Stability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Igor Pontes Duff , Pawan Goyal , Peter Benner

We propose that the Schrodinger equation results from applying the classical wave equation to describe the physical system in which subatomic particles play random motion, thereby leading to quantum mechanics. The physical reality described…

General Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Xue-Shu Zhao , Yu-Ru Ge , Xin Zhao , Hong Zhao

We axiomatize the molecular-biology reasoning style, show compliance of the standard reference: Ptashne, A Genetic Switch, and present proof-theory-induced technologies to help infer phenotypes and to predict life cycles from genotypes. The…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-19 René Vestergaard , Emmanuel Pietriga

Epigenetics is a driving force of important and ubiquitous phenomena in nature such as cell differentiation or even metamorphosis. Oppositely to its widespread role, understanding the biophysical principles that allow epigenetics to control…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-08 Davide Colì , Davide Michieletto , Davide Marenduzzo , Enzo Orlandini

We study the emergence of decoherent histories in isolated systems based on exact numerical integration of the Schr\"odinger equation for a Heisenberg chain. We reveal that the nature of the system, which we switch from (i) chaotic to (ii)…

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One of the longest standing open problems in science is how life arises from non-living matter. If it is possible to measure this transition in the lab, then it might be possible to understand the physical mechanisms by which the emergence…

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We consider the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation with a harmonic potential in the presence of two combined energy-subcritical power nonlinearities. We assume that the larger power is defocusing, and the smaller power is focusing. Such a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Rémi Carles , Yavdat Ilyasov

Wave functions live on configuration space. Schrodinger called this entanglement. The linearity of the Schrodinger equation prevents the wave function from representing reality. If the equation were non-linear (e.g., reduction models) the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Maurice Passman , Philip V. Fellman , Jonathan Vos Post

Biological evolution is a complex blend of ever changing structural stability, variability and emergence of new phenotypes, niches, ecosystems. We wish to argue that the evolution of life marks the end of a physics world view of law…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2012-01-11 Giuseppe Longo , Maël Montévil , Stuart Kauffman

The origin of life is one of the greatest mysteries. The mechanism for the synthesis of DNA is synonymous with the chemical origin of life, and theories have been developed along many lines of reasoning, but resolving all requirements…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-07 Charles D. Schaper

Echo dynamics and fidelity are often used to discuss stability in quantum information processing and quantum chaos. Yet fidelity yields no information about entanglement, the characteristic property of quantum mechanics. We study the…

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