Some remarks on Rosen's quantum-mechanical approach to genetics

Henryk Paul

Abstract Einstein's severe critique of quantum mechanics took its ultimate form in the so‐called Einstein Podolsky Rosen (EPR) paradox. The latter remained a subject of mere dispute, until a remarkable progress was initiated in 1964 by Bell who showed that quantum mechanical correlations specific for an EPR type experiment cannot be reproduced in any local hidden—variables theory. Afterwards, realistic versions of EPR experiments have been conceived and, in fact, carried out. The objective of the present paper is to give a review of this recent exciting development, both theoretical and experimental, which reveals one of the most striking features of quantum theory, the “quantum interconnectedness of distant systems”.

Robert Rosén

Francis D. Murnaghan, Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld

Gene expression variation is shaped by both genetic and environmental effects, yet these two factors are rarely considered together in the context of adaptive evolution. We studied environmental influences on gene regulatory evolution in ...Changes in gene expression are thought to play a major role in adaptive evolution. While it is known that gene expression is highly sensitive to the environment, very few studies have determined the influence of genetic and environmental effects on ...

Robert Rosén

Daniel I. Fivel

It is shown that the transformations of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen states such as those used in communication and cryptography schemes can be described as a hopping motion on a finite phase space lattice associated with a finite Heisenberg group. Quantum mechanical Hamiltonians that generate the hopping are shown to cause phase oscillations characterized by the number-theoretic Legendre symbol.

ODILON CHALVET, R. MASON