Positive-feedback-enhanced Fröhlich's Bose–Einstein-like condensation in biosystems
✍ Scribed by Marcus V. Mesquita; Áurea R. Vasconcellos; Roberto Luzzi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 243 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7608
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✦ Synopsis
We present a mechanostatistical study of the so-called Frohlich effect, namely nonthermal amplification of polar vibrations leading to complex behavior in biosystems, like biopolymers and large aggregates of macromolecules. Frohlich condensation is considered to be of relevance for a certain class of biological processes, in particular in connection with the problem of long-range propagation of signals at physiological temperature. Resorting to a thermomechanical theory appropriate to deal with irreversible processes in systems far from equilibrium, earlier results are extended. We perform an analysis of the case when production of a double excitation of polar vibrations, generated by the action of an external pumping source of metabolic energy, is possible. It is shown that, when this is the case, the process involves a positive feedback mechanism that greatly facilitates and enhances the phenomenon of Frohlich's condensation, and consequently the possible accompanying biological processes. The results are discussed and eventual connection with experimental observations pointed out.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
We consider the emergence of the so-called Frohlich's effect in a biosystem, a phenomenon consisting of the condensation of excitations in the polar vibrational modes lying at the bottom of these modes' frequency spectrum. This complex behavior of the system, which seems to have relevance in bioener