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 Tc superconductors. Finally we discuss how the proximity to a particular critical point is relevant to the emergence of coherence in the living cell.
Highlights
In these last years the genomes of many species have been sequenced, the structures of many macromolecular machineries of the cell have been solved using advanced physical methods and a large amount of experimental information has been accumulated on the networks of interactions between biomolecules in the living cell [1]
The latter focussed on collective excitations in a biological system such as solitons and coherent electric waves and proposed that the living state is a practical realization of a Bosecondensate
We propose that the quantum like transition that realizes the stable state of living matter at room temperature is similar to the non conventional Bardeen Cooper Schrieffer (BCS)-like transition as seen in high Tc superconductors
Summary
In these last years the genomes of many species have been sequenced, the structures of many macromolecular machineries of the cell have been solved using advanced physical methods and a large amount of experimental information has been accumulated on the networks of interactions between biomolecules in the living cell [1]. We propose that the quantum like transition that realizes the stable state of living matter at room temperature is similar to the non conventional BCS-like transition as seen in high Tc superconductors In this quantum mechanism the many body Feshbach resonance for molecular association and dissociation processes is proposed to be effective for giving a macroscopic quantum coherent phase that avoids the temperature quantum de-coherence effects. In this work we propose that by decreasing temperature around the boiling point of water, it is possible that a second BCS like phase transition occurred that was the cause of the origin of living matter as we know today. The spontaneous symmetry breaking theory has evolved from the BCS theory, describing the formation of a quantum condensate of a fermionic gas being a phase transition from a disordered state of matter to a dynamically ordered state of matter.
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