Studying Viral Populations with Tools from Quantum Spin Chains

Abstract We study Eigen’s model of quasi-species (Eigen in Selforganization of matter and the evolution of biological macromolecules. Naturwissenschaften 58(10):465, 1971), characterized by sequences that replicate with a specified fitness and mutate independently at single sites. The...

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Main Authors: Shivam, Saumya, Baldwin, Christopher L, Barton, John, Kardar, Mehran, Sondhi, S. L
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer US 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132032