Nanoscale correlated disorder in out-of-equilibrium myelin ultrastructure

G Campi, M Di Gioacchino, N Poccia, A Ricci… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ultrastructural fluctuations at nanoscale are fundamental to assess properties and
functionalities of advanced out-of-equilibrium materials. We have taken myelin as a model of …

Fractal structure favoring superconductivity at high temperatures in a stack of membranes near a strain quantum critical point

N Poccia, A Ricci, A Bianconi - Journal of Superconductivity and Novel …, 2011 - Springer
The statistical physics of the 3D ordered oxygen interstitials has been measured in La 2 CuO
4+ y using an advanced tool, scanning x-ray diffraction with focused synchrotron radiation …

Panexperiential materialism: A physical exploration of qualitativeness in the brain

RR Poznański, EJ Brändas - Advances in Quantum Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
It is a century-old view that experiential philosophies are not compatible with materialism. In
the contextual inconsistency with the reality, that matter is inertly acquiring only a single …

Coherent states as consequences of keto‐amino→ enol‐imine hydrogen bond arrangements driven by quantum uncertainty limits on amino DNA protons

WG Cooper - International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Experimental and theoretical evidence supporting the Löwdin model of DNA specificity is
presented. Molecular genetic measurements by the transcriptase demonstrate that time …

Far from equilibrium percolation, stochastic and shape resonances in the physics of life

N Poccia, A Ansuini, A Bianconi - International Journal of Molecular …, 2011 - mdpi.com
Key physical concepts, relevant for the cross-fertilization between condensed matter physics
and the physics of life seen as a collective phenomenon in a system out-of-equilibrium, are …

Temperature and solvent dependence of the dynamical landscape of tau protein conformations

A Bianconi, G Ciasca, A Tenenbaum, A Battisti… - Journal of biological …, 2012 - Springer
We report the variation with temperature of the ensemble distribution of conformations
spanned by the tau protein in its dynamical states measured by small-angle X-ray scattering …

Shape resonance at a Lifshitz transition for high temperature superconductivity in multiband superconductors

D Innocenti, A Valletta, A Bianconi - Journal of superconductivity and novel …, 2011 - Springer
We discuss the shape resonance in the superconducting gaps of a two-band
superconductor by tuning the chemical potential at a Lifshitz transition for Fermi surface neck …

Accuracy in biological information technology involves enzymatic quantum processing and entanglement of decohered isomers

WG Cooper - Information, 2011 - mdpi.com
Genetic specificity information “seen by” the transcriptase is in terms of hydrogen bonded
proton states, which initially are metastable amino (− NH2) and, consequently, are subjected …

Competing Striped Structures in La2CuO4+y

N Poccia, A Ricci, G Campi, AS Caporale… - … of superconductivity and …, 2013 - Springer
High temperature superconductivity emerges in unique materials, like cuprates, that belong
to the class of heterostructures at atomic limit, made of a superlattice of superconducting …

The molecular clock in terms of quantum information processing of coherent states, entanglement and replication of evolutionarily selected decohered isomers

WG Cooper - Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life …, 2011 - Springer
Evolutionary pressures have selected quantum uncertainty limits− Δ x Δ px≥ 1/2 ħ-to
operate on metastable amino DNA protons. This introduces a probability of molecular clock …