Cooperative and collective effects in light of the maximum energy dissipation principle
Date
2010
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Elsevier
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Abstract
We compare the collective phenomena in physics and cooperative phenomena in biology/chemistry in terms of the variational description. The maximum energy dissipation employed and the cost-like functional was chosen according to an optimal control based formulation. Using this approach, the variational outline has been considered for non-equilibrium thermodynamic conditions. The differences between the application of the proposed approach to the description of cooperative phenomena in chemical/ biochemical kinetics and the Landau free energy approach to collective phenomena in physics have been investigated.
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Maximum energy dissipation, Cooperativity, Collective effects, Variational approach, Optimal control, Landau free energy
Citation
Moroz, A. (2010) Cooperative and collective effects in light of the maximum energy dissipation principle. Physics letters A, 374 (19-20) pp. 2005-2010