Forming and maintaining a heat engine for quantum biology

BioSystems

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-29

  Matsuno, Koichiro ^a  

^a NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherence; Cohesion; Decoherence; Heat engine; Quantum; Reaction cycles; Temperature gradients

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; CHEMICAL REACTION; COHESION; ENDOTHERMY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL REACTION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; HEAT; MOLECULE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33744929403     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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