Apoorva Patel
Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics
Volume 41 Issue S1 July 1993 pp 139-165 Standard Model
Recent developments in lattice QCD
I review the current status of several lattice QCD results. I concentrate on new analytical developments and on numerical results relevant to phenomenology.
Volume 55 Issue 1-2 July 2000 pp 235-240
Constraints on
Results for light quark masses obtained from lattice QCD simulations are compared and contrasted with other determinations. Relevance of these results to estimates of
Volume 56 Issue 2-3 February 2001 pp 367-381 Quantum Information Processing
Quantum algorithms and the genetic code
Replication of DNA and synthesis of proteins are studied from the view-point of quantum database search. Identification of a base-pairing with a quantum query gives a natural (and first ever!) explanation of why living organisms have 4 nucleotide bases and 20 amino acids. It is amazing that these numbers arise as solutions to an optimisation problem. Components of the DNA structure which implement Grover’s algorithm are identified, and a physical scenario is presented for the execution of the quantum algorithm. It is proposed that enzymes play a crucial role in maintaining quantum coherence of the process. Experimental tests that can verify this scenario are pointed out.
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