Coherent electric waves

Solitons and Coherent Electric Waves in a Quantum Field Theoretical Approach... 

In the above dynamical scheme a crucial role is played by solitons, water electrets, and coherent electric waves. In this section we present some experimental findings which provide evidence for the existence of such collective modes in biological systems. 

It is interesting to notice that most of the vicinal water surrounds the elements of the cell cytoskeleton. It is not unlikely that the coherent electric waves discussed in this paper are responsible for such a correlation. Bound water also exhibits some kind of collective behavior ... 

Further evidence for coherent electric waves comes from Raman experiments on living cells. These experiments show a time-dependent pattern of lines in IR and IR regions. The connections between Raman spectroscopic data and the underlying (spatial and temporal) order in living matter is discussed elsewhere. 

Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is the result of uncontrolled electrical activity in the ventricle. This activity may be coordinated or uncoordinated. The definitive therapy for Ventricular is external stimulation by an electric field sufficiently large to reset the electrical activity of most ventricular cells. This ends the previous (uncontrolled) electrical activity and allows the reestablishment of normal cardiac activity. As explained earlier, this requires depolarization of a critical mass of tissue by a high-voltage discharge. When high-voltage therapy is delivered, an attempt is made to synchronize the delivery with a detected R-wave. A synchronized shock is termed cardioversion, whereas an unsynchronized shock is termed defibrillation because VF has no coherent electrical activity, and therefore no basis for synchronization (Figure 15.6). 

Finally, in this section, possible frequencies for the excitation of coherent vibrations should be considered. Originally special reference was made to membrane oscillations as their high polarization will then yield coherent electric oscillations (cf. Ref. 7, with earlier literature). Since the thickness of a membrane is about 10" cm and its elastic constant is equivalent to a velocity of sound of about lO cm/s, a frequency of the order of 10 Hz was expected, corresponding to electromagnetic waves in the millimeter region. When based on proteins or DNA, however, both higher and lower frequencies may be expected. 

ABSTRACT We present a dynamical scheme for biological systems. We use methods and techniques of quantum field theory since our analysis is at a microscopic molecular level. Davydov solitons on biomolecular chains and coherent electric dipole waves are described as collective dynamical modes. Electric polarization waves predicted by Frohlich are identified with the Goldstone massless modes of the theory with spontaneous breakdown of the dipole-rotational symmetry. Self-organization, dissipativity, and stability of biological systems appear as observable manifestations of the microscopic quantum dynamics. 

H. Frohlich has introduced, in a framework of far-from-equilibrium processes, coherent electric polarization waves as the physical agent able to control the working of distant and separate parts of the system, making them cooperative. On the other hand, it has been shown that biomolecules are able to host on their own chains, in a conservative framework, highly nonlinear subdynamics which give rise to deep structural and conformational changes. 

Transmission is accomplished by the emission of coherent electromagnetic waves in free space from one or more radiating elements that are excited by RF currents. Although, by definition, the radiated energy is composed of mutually dependent magnetic and electric vector fields, it is conventional practice to measure and specify radiation characteristics in terms of the electric field only. 

While Dennis wrote, the rest of us swam indolently in the river and washed our laundry under a clear, infinitely blue, and empty Amazonian sky. The background drone of the cicadas would occasionally rise in a coherent wave and sweep over the warm and shining surface of the gently drifting Igara-Parana, falling like electricity across the land in the heat of the equatorial day. 

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