Key physical concepts, relevant for the cross-fertilization between condensed matter physics and the physics of life seen as a collective phenomenon in a system out-of-equilibrium, are discussed. The onset of life can be driven by: (a) the critical fluctuations at the protonic percolation threshold in membrane transport; (b) the stochastic resonance in biological systems, a mechanism that can exploit external and self-generated noise in order to gain efficiency in signal processing; and (c) the shape resonance (or Fano resonance or Feshbach resonance) in the association and dissociation processes of bio-molecules (a quantum mechanism that could play a key role to establish a macroscopic quantum coherence in the cell).
Far from Equilibrium Percolation, Stochastic and Shape Resonances in the Physics of Life / Poccia, N; Ansuini, Alessio; Bianconi, A.. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. - ISSN 1422-0067. - 12:10(2011), pp. 6810-6833.
Titolo: | Far from Equilibrium Percolation, Stochastic and Shape Resonances in the Physics of Life |
Autori: | Poccia, N; Ansuini, Alessio; Bianconi, A. |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2011 |
Volume: | 12 |
Fascicolo: | 10 |
Pagina iniziale: | 6810 |
Pagina finale: | 6833 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms12106810 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Journal article |