Domain formation in noninstantaneous symmetry-breaking phase transitions

Alfinito, Eleonora; Vitiello, Giuseppe

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“…As Schrödinger observed for living matter in general (and his remarks apply equally well to the case of PCR processes), the attempt to explain the high efficiency in terms of ordering generated by "statistical mechanisms" * would be "the classical physicist's expectation that far from being trivial, is wrong" * , and "it needs * [18] (p. 47) * [18] (p. 19) no poetical imagination but only clear and sober scientific reflection to recognize that we are here obviously faced with events whose regular and lawful unfolding is guided by a mechanism entirely different from the probability mechanism of physics" * . We propose in this paper and in [5,6] that a third party intervenes in the DNA-enzyme interaction processes, which is organized (coherent) water, and we show how this fits well with the general gauge theory paradigm of quantum fields [15,16] (see also [7][8][9][10][11]). …”

Section: The Taq-dna Interaction and Open Questionsmentioning

confidence: 77%

“…This means that in order to obtain non-vanishing values for the fields E and B in a coherent region, ϕ(x, t) must exhibit a divergence or topological singularity within that region [9][10][11]. This is indeed observed in condensed matter physics.…”

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“…The present article offers an explanation by using the formalism of the gauge theory paradigm of quantum fields along the research lines developed in Refs. [1,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11].…”

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Water Bridging Dynamics of Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Gauge Theory Paradigm of Quantum Fields

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Abstract:We discuss the role of water bridging the DNA-enzyme interaction by resorting to recent results showing that London dispersion forces between delocalized electrons of base pairs of DNA are responsible for the formation of dipole modes that can be recognized by Taq polymerase. We describe the dynamical origin of the high efficiency and precise targeting of Taq activity in PCR. The spatiotemporal distribution of interaction couplings, frequencies, amplitudes, and phase modulations comprise a pattern of fields instantiating the electromagnetic image of DNA in its water environment, which is what the polymerase enzyme actually recognizes at long range. The experimental realization of PCR amplification, achieved through replacement of the DNA template by the treatment of pure water with electromagnetic signals recorded from viral and bacterial DNA solutions, is found consistent with the gauge theory paradigm of quantum fields.

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Water Bridging Dynamics of Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Gauge Theory Paradigm of Quantum Fields

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“…Furthermore, since the DT regime overlaps with the FN regime near the transition region, there can be identified two different "critical" bias values, V C and V G [26]. The critical bias V C signals the beginning of the FN regime, where the system starts to deviate from the Ohmic behaviour [26], while V G , the Ginzburg voltage [26,30], indicates the consolidation of the FN regime.…”

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Current-voltage characteristics of seven-helix proteins from a cubic array of amino acids

Alfinito

Reggiani

2016

Phys. Rev. E

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The electrical properties of a set of seven-helix transmembrane proteins, whose space arrangement (3d structure) is known, are investigated by using regular arrays of the amino acids. These structures, specifically cubes, have topological features similar to those shown by the chosen proteins. The theoretical results show a good agreement between the predicted current-voltage characteristics obtained from a cubic array and those obtained from a detailed 3D structure. The agreement is confirmed by available experiments on bacteriorhodopsin. Furthermore, all the analyzed proteins are found to share the same critical behaviour of the voltage-dependent conductance and of its variance. In particular, the cubic arrangement evidences a short plateau of the excess conductance and its variance at high voltages. The results of the present investigation show the possibility to predict the I-V characteristics of multiple-protein sample even in the absence of a detailed knowledge of their 3D structure.

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“…The description of the formation of coherent domains is a distinctive feature of the many-body model (Del Giudice et al, 1988;Alfinito et al, 2002). The observation of the multitude of ground states and of coherent domains provides a strong justification for exploring the description of nonlinear brain dynamics in terms of the dissipative many-body model.…”

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Nonlinear Brain Dynamics and Many-Body Field Dynamics

Freeman¹,

Vitiello²

2005

Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine

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We report measurements of the brain activity of subjects engaged in behavioral exchanges with their environments. We observe brain states which are characterized by coordinated oscillation of populations of neurons that are changing rapidly with the evolution of the meaningful relationship between the subject and its environment, established and maintained by active perception. Sequential spatial patterns of neural activity with high information content found in sensory cortices of trained animals between onsets of conditioned stimuli and conditioned responses resemble cinematographic frames. They are not readily amenable to description either with classical integrodifferential equations or with the matrix algebras of neural networks. Their modeling is provided by field theory from condensed matter physics.

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Domain formation in noninstantaneous symmetry-breaking phase transitions

Cited by 29 publications

References 13 publications

Water Bridging Dynamics of Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Gauge Theory Paradigm of Quantum Fields

Water Bridging Dynamics of Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Gauge Theory Paradigm of Quantum Fields

Current-voltage characteristics of seven-helix proteins from a cubic array of amino acids

Nonlinear Brain Dynamics and Many-Body Field Dynamics

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