Biophotons and Emergence of Quantum Coherence—A Diffusion Entropy Analysis
We study the emission of photons from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect light of extremely small intensity. We analyze the dark count signal without germinating seeds as well as the photon emission during the germination process. The technique of analysis adopted h...
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| author | Maurizio Benfatto Elisabetta Pace Catalina Curceanu Alessandro Scordo Alberto Clozza Ivan Davoli Massimiliano Lucci Roberto Francini Fabio De Matteis Maurizio Grandi Rohisha Tuladhar Paolo Grigolini |
| author_facet | Maurizio Benfatto Elisabetta Pace Catalina Curceanu Alessandro Scordo Alberto Clozza Ivan Davoli Massimiliano Lucci Roberto Francini Fabio De Matteis Maurizio Grandi Rohisha Tuladhar Paolo Grigolini |
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| description | We study the emission of photons from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect light of extremely small intensity. We analyze the dark count signal without germinating seeds as well as the photon emission during the germination process. The technique of analysis adopted here, called diffusion entropy analysis (DEA) and originally designed to measure the temporal complexity of astrophysical, sociological and physiological processes, rests on Kolmogorov complexity. The updated version of DEA used in this paper is designed to determine if the signal complexity is generated either by non-ergodic crucial events with a non-stationary correlation function or by the infinite memory of a stationary but non-integrable correlation function or by a mixture of both processes. We find that dark count yields the ordinary scaling, thereby showing that no complexity of either kinds may occur without any seeds in the chamber. In the presence of seeds in the chamber anomalous scaling emerges, reminiscent of that found in neuro-physiological processes. However, this is a mixture of both processes and with the progress of germination the non-ergodic component tends to vanish and complexity becomes dominated by the stationary infinite memory. We illustrate some conjectures ranging from stress induced annihilation of crucial events to the emergence of quantum coherence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-193fdf7427574f6e8e42459997363b872023-11-21T17:50:31ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002021-04-0123555410.3390/e23050554Biophotons and Emergence of Quantum Coherence—A Diffusion Entropy AnalysisMaurizio Benfatto0Elisabetta Pace1Catalina Curceanu2Alessandro Scordo3Alberto Clozza4Ivan Davoli5Massimiliano Lucci6Roberto Francini7Fabio De Matteis8Maurizio Grandi9Rohisha Tuladhar10Paolo Grigolini11Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Via E. Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati, ItalyLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Via E. Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati, ItalyLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Via E. Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati, ItalyLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Via E. Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati, ItalyLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Via E. Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati, ItalyDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Roma, ItalyDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Roma, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Via del Politecnico, 00133 Roma, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Via del Politecnico, 00133 Roma, ItalyIstituto La Torre, Via M. Ponzio 10, 10141 Torino, ItalyDepartment of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USACenter for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USAWe study the emission of photons from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect light of extremely small intensity. We analyze the dark count signal without germinating seeds as well as the photon emission during the germination process. The technique of analysis adopted here, called diffusion entropy analysis (DEA) and originally designed to measure the temporal complexity of astrophysical, sociological and physiological processes, rests on Kolmogorov complexity. The updated version of DEA used in this paper is designed to determine if the signal complexity is generated either by non-ergodic crucial events with a non-stationary correlation function or by the infinite memory of a stationary but non-integrable correlation function or by a mixture of both processes. We find that dark count yields the ordinary scaling, thereby showing that no complexity of either kinds may occur without any seeds in the chamber. In the presence of seeds in the chamber anomalous scaling emerges, reminiscent of that found in neuro-physiological processes. However, this is a mixture of both processes and with the progress of germination the non-ergodic component tends to vanish and complexity becomes dominated by the stationary infinite memory. We illustrate some conjectures ranging from stress induced annihilation of crucial events to the emergence of quantum coherence.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/5/554biophotonsdiffusion entropy analysiscomplexitycognition |
| spellingShingle | Maurizio Benfatto Elisabetta Pace Catalina Curceanu Alessandro Scordo Alberto Clozza Ivan Davoli Massimiliano Lucci Roberto Francini Fabio De Matteis Maurizio Grandi Rohisha Tuladhar Paolo Grigolini Biophotons and Emergence of Quantum Coherence—A Diffusion Entropy Analysis Entropy biophotons diffusion entropy analysis complexity cognition |
| title | Biophotons and Emergence of Quantum Coherence—A Diffusion Entropy Analysis |
| title_full | Biophotons and Emergence of Quantum Coherence—A Diffusion Entropy Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Biophotons and Emergence of Quantum Coherence—A Diffusion Entropy Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biophotons and Emergence of Quantum Coherence—A Diffusion Entropy Analysis |
| title_short | Biophotons and Emergence of Quantum Coherence—A Diffusion Entropy Analysis |
| title_sort | biophotons and emergence of quantum coherence a diffusion entropy analysis |
| topic | biophotons diffusion entropy analysis complexity cognition |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/5/554 |
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