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Further articles relevant to quantum brain dynamics

1.) Psycho-emotional physical unity

2.) Dual mode ontology - Gordon Globus

3.) Quantum connectionism & cognition

4.) Quantum brain dynamics & quantum field theory - Jibu & Yasue

5.) Self, Cognition & Qualia - Globus

6.) Coherent quantum electodynamics in living matter - Del Giudice





In Brain and Being

eds. Globus, G., Pribram, K. & Vitiello, G.

Emilio Del Giudice

INFN

The psycho-emotional physical unity of living organisms as an outcome of quantum physics

Del Giudice attempts to discuss how quantum field theory (QFT) could provide an understanding of the pysche. He highlights the core ensemble of molecules in the brain, which is governed by the laws of physics and chemistry, but also produces or contains the psyche or mind. Molecular biology describes only local encounters, but the author believes that there is a network of long-range signalling and interactions in the brain.

Del Giudice starts his discussion at the point where classical 19th century physics was overtaken by quantum theory. He points out that at the very beginning of quantum theory, Max Planck showed that matter had a  self-movement produced by quantum fluctuations and unrelated to any external influence. The phase describes the spontaneous oscillation of every quantum particle. Quantum particles and quantum fields, such as the electromagnetic field must oscillate, and this means that some quantum fluctuation remains even at absolute zero. The concept of a vacuum in classical physics is modified, and becomes a mass of fluctuations. There are two proofs of the existence of the underlying quantum fluctuations. Firstly, there is the Lamb Shift, where measurements of the relationship between the proton and the electron in the hydrogen atom shows a discrepancy that is due to the fluctuations in the elctromagnetic field. The second is the Casimir effect, where two metal plates set sufficiently close together exclude the long-wave quanta of the em field, which results in the inward pressure from the external space being greater than the pressure between the plates, thus proving the existence of the vacuum energy.

Coherent Domains
Del Giudice puts forward the idea of the coherent domain. Every particle made up of charged components, as are all atoms and molecules, is coupled with the em field. Above a certain density and below a certain temperature, and at a lower energy than the gas state, these particles are suggested to enter a coherent state. Here the particles oscillate in tune with the em field that is trapped within the resonating particles. There is a coherent regime of matter and em field that prevails within a space that is the size of the em oscillations. This region is called a coherence domain (CD). Its size ranges from a fraction of a micron up to several tens of microns. Long-range forces are suggested to occur at the boundaries of the coherent domains.

Del Giudice claims that analysis of many non-gases, such as water and crystals shows a good agreement with this theory. The very limited acceptance of the idea is blamed on the tendency of the scientific community to confine its thinking to the ideas of classical physics. The author suggests that the large number of CDs in living matter creates the possibility of finding the missing bridge between physics and biology. He suggests that the surface of the CDs could have molecules resonating with the surrounding water. The CDs are capable of giving rise to further CDs and these in turn to chemical reactions that by changing the molecules in the system also change the em field. The energy is not disippated in heat but instead produces a coherent excitation, which modulates the em field. This is seen as underlying the ordering of living matter, and implies the existence of a network of long-range particle flows. In this scheme, biological tissue arises from the interplay of a chemical level and an electromagnetic field.
 
This pr
ovides us with a theory for life forms and possibly for information and cognition but not for consciousness as such. There is no reason why the property of consciousness should arise from the interchange with the electromagnetic field, more than any other component of the physical universe, unless the theory is preapared to go the further step of specifying consciousness as a fundamental and given property of the field or its quanta.

References:-

Bohm, David & Yakir, A. (1959)    Electromagnetic potentials in the Quantum Theory    Physical Review, 115, 485-491

Damasio, A. (1994)    Descartes Error    Putnam

Del Giudice, E., Doglia, S. Milani, M. & Vitiello, G. (1988)    Electromagnetic interactions in living matter  In Fröhlich, H. ed.  Biological Coherence and Response to External Stimuli pp. 49-64    Springer

Del Giudice, E., Doglia, S. Milani, M., Vitiello, G. & Smith, C. (1989)    Magnetic flux and Josephson behaviour in living systems    In Fröhlich, H. ed.  Biological Coherence and Response to External Stimuli    Springer

Del Giudice, E. & Preparata, G. (1995)    Coherent dynamics in water as an explanation of biological membranes    Journal of Biological Physics, 20, 105-116

Del Giudice, E. et al (2002)    Effects of weak magnetic fields on ions    Bioelectrmagnetics, 23, 522-530

Fröhlich, H. (1968)    Long-range coherence in biological systems    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 11, 641-645

Josephson, B. (1962)    Superconductive tunnelling    Physics Letters, 1, 251-253

Nernst, W. (1969)    The new heat theorem    Dover

Preparata, G. (1995)     QED coherence in matter    World Scientific

Preparata, G. (2002)    An introduction to realistic quantum physics    World Scientific

Zhadin et al (1998)    Static and alternating magnetic field on ionic current    Bioelectromagnetics, 19, 41-45





Gordon Globus

University of California Irvine

Dual mode ontology and its application to the Riemann Hypothesis

In Globus, G., Pribram, H. & Vitiello, G. Eds.  Brain and Being    John Benjamins

Gordon Globus suffers from a particularly opaque style of writing. However this paper does throw some light on quantum brain dynamics. Globus argues that if the brain has quantum degrees of freedom it ought to be able to do things that a conventional computer cannot do. In the 1960s Umezawa proposed the idea of the tilda universe, which is the brain’s representation of the external world. Globus points out that the interchange between Umezawa’s tilda universe and the conventional universe happens in the vacuum state.
 
Umezawa had rules to govern this exchange. The non-tilda universe is the universe of conventional physics. The non-tilda universe is the physical object, while the tilda universe represents subjective experience. The match or exchange between the external non-tilda world and the inner tilda world is seen as producing the experience of consciousness or subjectivity. It is stressed that the tilda world is not itself consciousness or even the self. The self is seen as an attunement to the tilda world, which in line with the quantum world contains fluctuating possibilities.
 
Globus refers at length to Vitiello’s 2001 book, ‘My Double Unveiled’. For Vitiello, informational inputs from the external world are recorded in the non-tilda world, and then copied to the tilda world, which is the 'double' referred to in the title of his book. Consciousness is the interaction between the tilda and the non-tilda within the vacuum state. This is where consciousness is grounded. The subject or subjective is the interaction between the tilda and the non tilda mode.
 
Globus is critical of the Vitiello interpretation. If the tilda version is just a straight copy of non-tilda, the dialogue or interaction between the two will not be very interesting. Globus seems to favour some more direct experience of the external world, but one thart is still based on similar physical structures to those described by Vitiello.

In this version, the theory seems to come down to saying that consciousness is a property of the vacuum state. This brings it quite close to Penrose, who makes a consciousness a property or coding of the geometry of spacetime. QBD seems less elegant in requiring first a copying from the external to the internal and then a relationship between the two, plus a somewhat a nebulous bridge to the quantum state. However, both theories have the same gist, which is that consciousness is a property of the fundamental level of the universe.

References:-

Derrida, J. (1981)    Dissemination    University of Chicago Press

Fröhlich, H. (1968)    Long-range coherence in biological systems    Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2, 641-649

Globus, G. (2003)    Quantum closures and disclosures    John Benjamins

Heidegger, M. (1999)    Contributions to philosophy    Indiana University Press

Jibu, M. & Yasue, K. (1995)    Quantum brain dynamics and consciousness    John Benjamins

Penrose, R. (1994)    Shadows of the Mind    Oxford University Press

Plotnitsky, A. (2002)    The knowable and the unknowable    Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Ricciardi, L. & Umezawa, H. (1967)    Brain and physics of many body problems    Kybernetik, 4, 44-8

Umezawa, H. (1993)    Advanced field theory: Micro, macro and therma physics    American Institute of Physics

Umezawa, H. (1995)    Development in concepts in QFT    Mathematical Japonica, 41, 109-124

Vitiello, G. (2001)    My Double Unveiled    John Benjamins





Eliano Pessa

Dept. of Psychology, University of Pavia

Quantum connectionism and the emergence of cognition

In Globus, G., Pribram, H. & Vitiello, G. Eds.  Brain and Being    John Benjamins

The author argues that the idea of cognition being based on emergent properties can only work if quantum field theory (QFT) is involved in the process. This idea is described as quantum connectionism. Pessa emphasises the distinction between quantum mechanics (QM) and quantum field theory (QFT). She considers the former to be unsuitable for the brain because of the familiar problem of rapid decoherence in the brain’s environment.
 
In QFT the main physical entities are fields rather than particles, and these persist in everyday temperatures and environments. Pessa suggests that symmetry breaking within QFT can produce collective excitations and particles carrying long-range interactions known as Goldstone bosons (Umezawa, 1993) (1) In these circumstances, peterburations can be transmitted through the system over a long range. The transmission is by means of the Goldstone bosons. They are macroscopic coherent entities that are stable in the face of perterbation. Bosons, such as phonons in crystals and magnons in ferromagnets, have now been experimentally detected.

References:-

(1)  Umezawa, H. (1993)    Advanced Field Theory: Micro, Macro and Thermal Physcis    American Institute of Physics

(2)  Stein, D. (1980)    Dissipative structures, broken symmetry and the theory of equilibrium phase transitions    Journal of Chemical Physics, 72, 2869-2874

(3)  Rumer et al (1980)    Thermal dynamics, statistical physics and kinetics    Mir

Anderson, P. (1981)    Broken symmetry in driven systems    In Nicolis, G., Dewel & Turner, P. eds.  Equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics pp. 289-297    Wiley

Anderson, P. & Stein, D. (1985)   Broken symmetry  In Yates, F. ed.  Self Organising Systems, pp. 445-457    Plenum Press

Celeghini, E., Rasetti, M., & Vitiello, G. (1992)    Quantum dissipation    Annals of Physics, 215, 156-170

Gupta, S. & Zia, R. (2001)    Quantum Neural Networks    Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 63, pp. 355-383

Jibu, M. & Yasue, K. (1995)    Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness    Benjamins

Jibu, M. & Yasue, K. (1997)    Magic without magic    Journal of Mind and Behaviour, 18, 205-228

Pribram, K. Ed. (1993)    Rethinking neural networks    Erlbaum

Ricciardi, L & Umezawa, H. (1967)    Brain and physics of many-body problems    Kybernetik, 4, pp. 44-48

Vitiello, G. (2001)    My Double Unveiled    Benjamins





Mari Jibu & Kunio Yasue

Notre
Dame Seishin University

Quantum brain dynamics and quantum field theory

In Globus, G., Pribram, H. & Vitiello, G. Eds.  Brain and Being    John Benjamins

This paper is a rather clearer approach to quantum brain dynamics than was achieved in the authors earlier book, ‘Quantum brain dynamics and consciousness', although some of the same tendency to confusing repetition is apparent here as well.

The authors state that the fundamental processes of the brain can be described in terms of quantum field theory (QFT) and more spcifically in terms of quantum electrodynamics (QED). A theory based solely on membrane potential differences and ion channels is felt to fail in several respects. Stemming from Umezawa, Ricciardi and Stuart the theory suggests the existence of a microscopic sytems in addition to the standard neuron electric potential system. They assume a quantum system which interacts with the conventional macroscopic system. They suggest that the ordering of the brain is based on long-range correlations mediated by Goldstone bosons.

Most non-living matter on any large scale can be described by quantum statistical mechanics. Macroscopic matter in thermal equilibrium is seen as having its atomic ingredients in an uncorrelated state, where quantum statistical mechanics provides an approximation. Medical and biological sciences find their foundation in the same area. It tends to be forgotten that quantum statistical mechanics is only an approximation.
 
The authors suggest that there are strong correlations between the ingredients of living matter, which are missing in the case of non-living matter. The distinctive feature of living matter is the reduction in entropy and the increase in order. A system is needed to describe atomic ingredients in strong correlation. The physcisist, Umezawa, was one of the first to emphasise this point in the 1960s (Ricciardi & Umezawa, 1967). (1)

He emphasised the Goldstone mode for complex systems with strong correlations. This is in contrast to non-living systems that have few correlations. In the same period Fröhlich suggested that long-range coherent features could play a role in energy storage in biological systems (Fröhlich, 1968). A coherent dipolar wave is suggested to exist in the cytoskeleton, and to exchange energy with the surrounding electromagnetic field. The wave propagation represents many dipolar oscillations in chains of protein molecules. The energy is suggested not to be thermalised but to be stored in an ordered fashion.

The cytoplasm comprises a complex arrangement of protein and water molecules. It contains a dense network of protein filaments surrounded by water molecules. So we have a dense network of protein filaments surrounded by and interacting with water molecules. This system is suggested to have long-range correlations. Water has a permanent dipole, due the arrangement of the hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The field on each protein filament is suggested to propagate into the surrounding water molecules. The electric dipole field is suggested to span the whole of the brain tissue. The corticons, the basic quanta of this system, are the water dipole moment surrounding the protein filament.

The total energy of a field in quantum field theory is important for determining the dynamics of the field and is called the Hamiltonian. The total energy of the corticons is the Hamiltonian of the corticons. The minimum of the Hamiltonian is the vacuum state. The vacuum state involves a symmetry breaking, because the corticons all fall to a uniform configuration, all aligned along the same direction, breaking the original order. This creates long-range order or a macroscopic ordered state. The Goldstone theorem shows that in a macroscopic ordered state there are long wave correlation waves mediated by bosons known as Goldstone bosons.

References:-

(1)  Ricciardi, L. & Umezawa, H. (1967)    Brain and physics of many-body problems    Kybernetik, 4, 44

Del Giudice, E., Doglia, S. & Milani, M. (1982)    Collective dynamics in active cells    Physics Letters, 90A, pp. 104-106

Del Giudice, E., Doglia, S., Milani, M. & Vitiello, G. (1985)    A quantum field approach to the collective behaviour of biological systems    Nuclear Physics, B251, pp. 375-400

Del Giudice, E., Doglia, S., Milani, M. & Vitiello, G. (1986)    Symmetry breaking in biological matter    Nuclear Physics, B275, pp. 185-199

Del Giudice, E., Preparata, E., & Vitiello, G. (1988)    Water as a dipole laser    Physical Review Letters, 61, pp. 1085-1088

Del Giudice, E., Doglia, S., Milani, M. & Vitiello, G. (1992)    Dynamical mechanism for cytoskeleton structures  In Bender, M. Ed.  Interfacial phenomena in biological systems

Eccles, J. (1986)    Do mental events cause neural events anologously to the probability fields of quantum mechanics?    Proceedings of the Royal  Society of London, B277, 411-428

Fröhlich, H. (1968)    Long-range coherence in biological systems    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2, pp. 641-649

Hameroff, S. (1987)    Ultimate Computing    North Holland

Jibu, M. (2001)    Pressure reversal of anesthesia    Medical Hypotheses, 56, pp. 26-32

Jibu, M. & Yasue, K. (1993)    Intracellular quantum signal transfer    Cybernetics and Systems, 24, pp. 1-7

Jibu, M. & Yasue, K. (1995)     Quantum brain dynamics    John Benjamins

Jibu, M. & Yasue, K. (1997a)    Quantum field theory in brain as theory of consciousness    Informatica, 21, pp. 471-490

Jibu, M. & Yasue, K. (1997b)    Meaning of quantum brain dynamics   Journal of Mind and Behaviour, 18, pp. 205-228

Jibu, M., Hagan, S., Hameroff, S., Pribram, K. & Yasue, K. (1994)    Qunatum optical coherence in microtubules    Biosystems, 32, pp. 195-209

Jibu, M., Pribram, K. & Yasue, K. (1996)    The role of quantum brain dynamics    International Journal of Modern Physics, B10, pp. 1745-1754

Jibu, M., Yasue, K. & Hagan, S. (1997)    Photon and ceelular vision    Biosystems, 42, pp. 65-73

Penrose, R. (1989)    The Emperor’s New Mind    Oxford University Press

Penrose, R. (1994)     Shadows of the Mind    Oxford University Press

Pribram, K. (1991)    Brain and Perception    Lawrence Erlbaum

Ricciardi, L. & Umezawa, H. (1967)    Brain and physics of many-body problems    Kybernetik, 4, 44

Umezawa, H. (1993)    Micro, macro and thermal physics    American Institute of Physics

Vitiello, G. (2001)    My Double Unveiled    John Benjamins





Self, Cognition, Qualia and World in Quantum Brain Dynamics

Gordon
Globus

Journal of Consciousness Studies, 5, No. 1, 1998, pp. 34-52

Globus starts by pointing out that if the brain were found to have a quantum level of functioning involving superpositions and non-local correlations, then it would become easier to deal with the problem of consciousness. In this article, Globus assumes that neural tissue has a quantum level of functioning and that the ‘vague’ term consciousness is ‘unpacked’ into ‘self’, ‘cognition’, ‘qualia’ and his hard of comprehend term ‘throwness in the world’.

Globus questions the assumption of the objective existence of the external world, instead suggesting that this may be an illusion. He regards the believe in the objective world, or ‘world in common’ as he calls it, as an entrenched barrier to dealing with the hard problem of consciousness.

Yasue, Jibu et al have developed a version of quantum neurodynamics based on quantum field theory (QFT). Jibu and Yasue draw a distinction between quantum physics in living and non-living matter. Non-living matter can be described by quantum mechanics, but QFT is needed to describe living systems. Silicon-based systems would not be described in this way. QBD is based on the vacuum or lowest energy states. The quanta of these lowest states form Bose-Einstein condensation over macroscopic regions. Jibu and Yasue view water molecules held in various quasi-crystalline structures in the brain as quantum mechanical spinning tops. These are dipoles with positive and negatively charged poles. Interaction between this dipoles form a quantum field. Water molecules are suggested to enter a quasi-crystalline form called ordered water in which they can spin coherently in several directions. The water dipole field is supposed to give rise to condensates. The neurons have a dense web of protein filaments forming the cytoskeleton, the best known of which are the microtubules. Some of the filaments extend outside the neuron. Protein molecules which comprise the filaments oscillate between different conformations, and incoming energy is converted into solitons that propagate along the filaments, as the collective mode of many dipolar oscillations. The energy pattern of sensory input induces solitons in the protein filaments and these in turn provide a representation of physical reality.

Globus goes onto to discuss the vexed question of measurement/quantum wave collapse. In mathematical terms the move from quantum and unobservable to classical with observable particles requires that the imaginary dimension and numbers of the mathematics must be replaced by real numbers related to observables. The normal and rather arbitrary way of getting rid of the imaginaries is the Born postulate that involves multiplying a complex number by its complex conjugate. But it is suggested that QBD has a better way of getting back to the real numbers. The idea seems to involve physical reality on one side and cognition and memory on the other side, in the complex numbers and complex conjugates that together produce a quantum reality.
 
The brain is suggested to produce quantum fields which interact with a conjugate mental reality. It has to be said that the theory feels like a stretch even for those sympathetic to quantum consciousness. The complex numbers and conjugates are abstractions which make it possible to perform calculations in quantum theory. It seems highly arbitrary to make them represent larger scale physical realities. Furthermore the cut made between physical reality and mental reality looks dubious in that we think that cognition and memory are at least partly coded by classical physical structures.

Globus moves on to try and ‘unpack’ consciousness. Self-agency is viewed as control exercised through cognitive acts, and cognitive can mean quantum cognitive. Globus sees the processing of the brain as a spontaneous eruption of superposed possibilities steered by the tuning of these possibilities. Brain processing is not viewed as rule following. It would seem that the actual experience of the world, confusingly described as ‘actual thrown in the world existence’ arises from these interactions in the brain. The external world is seen as a private projection of each brain, and the assumption of an objective world that we share in common is seen as an illusion.

Globus goes onto discuss the question of qualia, which somewhat exposes the weakness of this version of quantum consciousness. He seems to be reduces to viewing qualia as a brute fact, with no more special connection to the quantum world, than conventional neuroscience has to qualia via its axon/synapse orthodoxy.

References:-

Alexander, D. & Globus, G.  (1993)    Edge of chaos dynamics in brain systems  in Ed. MacCormac, P. & Stamenov, M.  Fractals of Brain, Fractal of Mind    John Benjamins

Andrews, M. et al  (1997)    Interference between two bose condensates    Science, 275, pp. 637-40

Davydov, A.  (1978)    Solitons in molecular systems    Physica Scripta, 20, pp. 387-94

Feigl, H.  (1967)    The Mental and the Physical    University of Minnesota Press

Fröhlich, H.  (1968)    Coherence and energy storage in biological sytems    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2, pp. 641-9

Globus, G.  (1987)    Dream Life, Wake Life    University of New York Press

Globus, G.  (1989)    The Strict Identity  in Ed. Maxwell, M. & Savage, C.  Science, Mind and Philosophy    University Press of America

Globus, G.  (1992)    Non-computational cognitive neuroscience    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, pp. 319-30

Globus, G.  (1995a)    The Post Modern Brain    John Benjamins

Globus, G.  (1995b)    Cognition, self and observation in QBD  In Ed. Pylkkanen, P. & Pylkko, P.  New Directions in Cognitive Science    Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society

Globus, G.  (1995c)    Explaining consciousness in quantum terms  in Ed. Pylkkanen, P. et al  Brain, Mind and Physics    IOS Press

Globus, G.    Nonlinear brain systems    Journal of Mind and Behaviour

Jibu, M. & Yasue, K.  (1992)    A physical picture of Umezawa’s QBD  In Ed. Trappl, R.  Cybernetics and Systems Research, vol I    World Scientific

Jibu, M. & Yasue, K.  (1993a)    Intracellular quantum signal transfer    Cybernetics and Systems, 24, pp. 1-7

Jibu, M. & Yasue, K.  (1993b)    Introduction to QBD  In Ed. Carvallo, M.  Nature, Cognition and System    Kluwer Academic Publishers

Jibu, M. et al  (1994)    Quantum optical coherence in microtubules    Biosystems, 32, pp. 195-209

Jibu, M. & Yasue, K.  (1995)    QBD and Consciousness    John Benjamins

Jibu, M., Pribram, K. & Yasue, K.  (1996)    QBD & boson condensation    International Journal of Modern Physics B

Marshall, I  (1989)    Consciousness and Bose-Einstein condensates    New Ideas in Psychology, 7, pp. 73-83

Ricciardi, L. & Umezawa, H.  (1967)    Brain & physics of many body problems    Kybernetic, 4, p. 44

Stuart, C., Takahashi, Y. & Umezawa, H. (1978)    Stability and non-local properties of memeory    Journal of Theoretical Biology, 71, p. 605

Stuart, C., Takahashi, Y. & Umezawa, H. (1979)    Memory as a macroscopic ordered state    Foundations of Physics, 9, p. 301

Umezawa, H.  (1993)    Micro, macro and thermal physics    American Institute of Physics

Vitiello, G.  (1995)    Dissipation & memory in QBD    International Journal of Modern Physics B, 9, pp. 973-89

Yasue, K. et al  (1988)    Stochastic neurodynamics    Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mechanics, 40, pp. 41-59

Yasue, K., Jibu, M. & Pribram, K.  (1991)    Appendis to Pribram’s Brain & Perception    Erlbaum





Coherent quantum electrodynamics in living matter

Del Giudice, E. & Vitiello, G. et al

INFN & University of Salerno

Del Giudice considers that classical physics cannot explain the ordering of biological matter. He particularly stresses the problem of how chemical energy can be translated into mechanical energy in a biological system. He argues on the basis of the Carnot theorem, that in living matter this process would not have an efficiency of greater than 1%, whereas an efficiency of 50% is required. The need for some collective dynamic in biomolecules is thus based on thermodynamic principles.

In classical physics, objects oscillate if a force is applied, but in quantum physic it is the nature of particles to oscillate. Fröhlich (1), Hepp & Lieb, (2) and Preparata, (3) have all explored the possibility of biological coherence. Coherent fluctuations can become coupled with the electromagnetic field. In particular, Fröhlich thought that coherence might play a major part in the dynamics of enzymes.
The role of bound or ordered water is seen as important to biomolecules. In the presence of a protein chain, water molecules have their dipoles aligned with the dipoles of the biomolecules in the chain. The coherent oscillation of the water molecules is changed from being a three dimensional liquid to a one dimensional chain aligned to the biomolecules. This chain of water molecules attracts a second chain of ordered water further out and so on, although the ordering force diminishes as the layers move away from the original protein. Any excitation arising in the protein itself is trapped in it by the ordered water and forced to move in the direction of the protein. This process is viewed as a starting point for improved understanding of biological matter.

References:-

1.) Fröhlich, H.    Long-range coherence and energy storage in biological systems    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 1968, 2(5), pp. 641-9

2.) Hepp, K. & Lieb, E.    Superradiant phase transition for molecules in a quantised radiation field    Annals of Physics, (1973), 76, pp. 360-404

3.) Preparata, G.    QED coherence in matter    World Scientific (1995)

Del Giudice, E. et al    Hamiltonian and superradiant phase transition    Mod. Physical Letters B (1993), 7, pp. 1851-5

Del Giudice, E. & Preparata, G. et al    Superradiance     In: Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena,  Eds. Clarke, T. et al    World Scientific (1991) pp.167-173

Del Giudice, E. & Doglia, S. et al    Electromagnetic interactions in living matter    In:  Biological Coherence and Response to External Stimuli    Ed.  Fröhlich, H.    Springer Verlag (1988) pp. 49-84

Del Giudice, E. & Preparata, G.    Coherent dynamics in water and membrane formation    Journal of Biological Physics, (1994), 20, pp. 105-6

Del Giudice, E. & Preparata, G.    A new QED picture of water    In:  Macroscopic Quantum Coherence  Eds. Sassaroli, E. et al     World Scientific (1998), pp. 108-129