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Replication and Evolution of Quantum Species

Arun K. Pati

abstract: We dwell upon the physicist's conception of `life' since Schroedinger and Wigner through to the modern-day language of living systems in the light of quantum information. We discuss some basic features of a living system such as ordinary replication and evolution in terms of quantum bio-information. We also discuss the principle of no-culling of living replicas. We show that in a collection of identical species there can be no entanglement between one of the mutated copies and the rest of the species in a closed universe. Even though these discussions revolve around `artificial life' they may still be applicable in real biological systems under suitable conditions.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0411075
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
Latex, 12 pages, no figures
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0411075
journal_ref:
Fluctuation and Noise Letters, Vol 4, No. 3 (2004) R27-R38
created:
2004-11-10

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