Quantum aspects of life

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Abbott Derek 1960-; Davies P. C. W; Pati Arun K
Published: Imperial College Press Distributed by World Scientific,
Publisher Address: London Hackensack, NJ London
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
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