Quantum aspects of life
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Published: |
Imperial College Press Distributed by World Scientific,
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Publisher Address: | London Hackensack, NJ London |
Publication Dates: | c2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xxvi, 442 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781848162532 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1848162537 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781848162679 (paperback : alk. paper) 1848162677 (paperback : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | Q3 |
CLC: |
Q3 Q50 Q75 |
Call Number: | Q75/Q17 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. A quantum origin of life? / Paul C.W. Davies -- Quantum mechanics and emergence / Seth Lloyd -- Quantum coherence and the search for the first replicator / Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden -- Ultrafast quantum dynamics in photosynthesis / Alexandra Olaya Castro ... [et al.] -- Modelling quantum decoherence in biomolecules / Jacques Bothma, Joel Gilmore, and Ross H. McKenzie -- Molecular evolution : a role for quantum mechanics in the dynamics of molecular machines that read and write DNA / Anita Goel -- Memory depends on the cytoskeleton, but is it quantum? / Andreas Mershin and Dimitri V |