English
Related papers

Related papers: On some algebraic problems arising in quantum mech…

200 papers

Quantum information and computation may serve as a source of useful axioms and ideas for the quantum logic/quantum structures project of characterizing and classifying types of physical theories, including quantum mechanics and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard Barnum

The dynamic instability of the living systems and the "superposition" of different forms of randomness are viewed as a component of the contingently increasing organization of life along evolution. We briefly survey how classical and…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2011-04-07 Marcello Buiatti , Giuseppe Longo

Biological systems are generally complicated and/or complex. In the former approach, one sets up a model with a large number of parameters to describe the system in detail. The latter approach focuses on understanding the universal aspects…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Kunihiko Kaneko

Stapp and others have proposed that reality involves a fundamental life process, or creative process. It is shown how this process description may be unified with the description that derives from quantum physics. The methods of the quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Michael Conrad , D. Home , Brian Josephson

Living systems are thermodynamically open but closed in their organization. In other words, even though their material components turn over constantly, a material-independent property persists, which we call organization. Moreover,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Pedro Márquez-Zacarías , Andrés Ortiz-Muñoz , Emma P. Bingham

The development of quantum information theory has renewed interest in the idea that the state vector does not represent the state of a quantum system, but rather the knowledge or information that we may have on the system. I argue that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Louis Marchildon

How should we interpret physical theories, and especially quantum theory, if we drop the assumption that we should treat it as an exact description of the whole Universe? I expound and develop the claim that physics is about the study of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 David Wallace

We consider the links between consistent and approximate descriptions of the quantum-classical systems, i.e. systems are composed of two interacting subsystems, one of which behaves almost classically while the other requires a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-27 V. I. Gerasimenko

In classical theory, the physical systems are elucidated through the concepts of particles and waves, which aim to describe the reality of the physical system with certainty. In this framework, particles are mathematically represented by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Mohammad Vahid Takook , Ali Mohammad-Djafari

While several paths have emerged in microelectronics and computing as follow-ons to Turing architectures, and have been implemented using essentially silicon circuits, very little beyond Moore research has considered: (1) first biological…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-27 P. N. Borza , L-F Pau

The relationship between microsystems and macrosystems is considered in the context of quantum field formulation of statistical mechanics: it is argued that problems on foundations of quantum mechanics can be solved relying on this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 L. Lanz , O. Melsheimer , B. Vacchini

Validation of a presumably universal theory, such as quantum mechanics, requires a quantum mechanical description of systems that carry out theoretical calculations and experiments. The description of quantum computers is under active…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Paul Benioff

The search for meaningful structure in biological data has relied on cutting-edge advances in computational technology and data science methods. However, challenges arise as we push the limits of scale and complexity in biological problems.…

Although it has been notoriously difficult to pin down precisely what it is that makes life so distinctive and remarkable, there is general agreement that its informational aspect is one key property, perhaps the key property. The unique…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-12-20 Sara Imari Walker , Paul C. W. Davies

We show that the main difference between classical and quantum systems can be understood in terms of information entropy. Classical systems can be considered the ones where the internal dynamics can be known with arbitrary precision while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Gabriele Carcassi , Christine A. Aidala

Biological phenomena differ significantly from physical phenomena. At the heart of this distinction is the fact that biological entities have computational abilities and thus they are inherently difficult to predict. This is the reason why…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2009-09-29 Pau Fernandez , Ricard V. Sole

The vision of Organic Computing addresses challenges that arise in the design of future information systems that are comprised of numerous, heterogeneous, resource-constrained and error-prone components or devices. Here, the notion organic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-26 Ingo Scholtes , Claudio Juan Tessone

The complexity and the chaos degree can be used to examine the chaotic aspects of not only several nonlinear classical and quantum physical physics but also life sciences. We will construct a model describing the function of brain in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanori Ohya

The notion of a qubit is ubiquitous in quantum information processing. In spite of the simple abstract definition of qubits as two-state quantum systems, identifying qubits in physical systems is often unexpectedly difficult. There are an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lorenza Viola , Emanuel Knill , Raymond Laflamme

Living organisms exploit complex molecular machines to execute crucial functions in chaotic environments. Inspired by nature's molecular setups we explore the idea of a quantum mechanical device whose purpose is self-protecting quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Thiago Guerreiro