Replication and evolution of quantum species

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Pati, Arun K ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (India)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlation; Mutation of species; Quantum culling; Quantum replication

Indexed keywords

EID: 8844242826     PISSN: 02194775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219477504002014     Document Type: Article

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