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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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Autores principales: Benfatto, Maurizio, Pace, Elisabetta, Curceanu, Catalina, Scordo, Alessandro, Clozza, Alberto, Davoli, Ivan, Lucci, Massimiliano, Francini, Roberto, De Matteis, Fabio, Grandi, Maurizio, Tuladhar, Rohisha, Grigolini, Paolo
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8146849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33947077
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23050554
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author Benfatto, Maurizio
Pace, Elisabetta
Curceanu, Catalina
Scordo, Alessandro
Clozza, Alberto
Davoli, Ivan
Lucci, Massimiliano
Francini, Roberto
De Matteis, Fabio
Grandi, Maurizio
Tuladhar, Rohisha
Grigolini, Paolo
author_facet Benfatto, Maurizio
Pace, Elisabetta
Curceanu, Catalina
Scordo, Alessandro
Clozza, Alberto
Davoli, Ivan
Lucci, Massimiliano
Francini, Roberto
De Matteis, Fabio
Grandi, Maurizio
Tuladhar, Rohisha
Grigolini, Paolo
author_sort Benfatto, Maurizio
collection PubMed
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 pubmed-81468492021-05-26 Biophotons and Emergence of Quantum Coherence—A Diffusion Entropy Analysis Benfatto, Maurizio Pace, Elisabetta Curceanu, Catalina Scordo, Alessandro Clozza, Alberto Davoli, Ivan Lucci, Massimiliano Francini, Roberto De Matteis, Fabio Grandi, Maurizio Tuladhar, Rohisha Grigolini, Paolo Entropy (Basel) Article 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. MDPI 2021-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8146849/ /pubmed/33947077 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23050554 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Benfatto, Maurizio
Pace, Elisabetta
Curceanu, Catalina
Scordo, Alessandro
Clozza, Alberto
Davoli, Ivan
Lucci, Massimiliano
Francini, Roberto
De Matteis, Fabio
Grandi, Maurizio
Tuladhar, Rohisha
Grigolini, Paolo
Biophotons and Emergence of Quantum Coherence—A Diffusion Entropy Analysis
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 Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8146849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33947077
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23050554
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