A Possible Mechanism for Evading Temperature Quantum Decoherence in Living Matter by Feshbach Resonance

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A Possible Mechanism for Evading Temperature Quantum Decoherence in Living Matter by Feshbach Resonance

Nicola Poccia , Alessandro Ricci , Davide Innocenti and Antonio Bianconi *

Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, P. Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy

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Received: 29 March 2009; in revised form: 29 April 2009 / Accepted: 11 May 2009 / Published: 13 May 2009

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Origin of Life)

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Abstract: A new possible scenario for the origin of the molecular collective behaviour associated with the emergence of living matter is presented. We propose that the transition from a non-living to a living cell could be mapped to a quantum transition to a coherent entanglement of condensates, like in a multigap BCS superconductor. Here the decoherence-evading qualities at high temperature are based on the Feshbach resonance that has been recently proposed as the driving mechanism for high T_c superconductors. Finally we discuss how the proximity to a particular critical point is relevant to the emergence of coherence in the living cell.

Keywords: origin of life; quantum coherence; biological networks; network of networks; Bose condensation; quantum statistics of networks; Feshbach resonance; multiband superconductivity; multigap superconductivity

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Poccia, N.; Ricci, A.; Innocenti, D.; Bianconi, A. A Possible Mechanism for Evading Temperature Quantum Decoherence in Living Matter by Feshbach Resonance. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2009, 10, 2084-2106.

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Poccia N., Ricci A., Innocenti D., Bianconi A. A Possible Mechanism for Evading Temperature Quantum Decoherence in Living Matter by Feshbach Resonance. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2009; 10(5):2084-2106.

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Poccia, Nicola; Ricci, Alessandro; Innocenti, Davide; Bianconi, Antonio. 2009. "A Possible Mechanism for Evading Temperature Quantum Decoherence in Living Matter by Feshbach Resonance." Int. J. Mol. Sci. 10, no. 5: 2084-2106.

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