Cooperative and collective effects in light of the maximum energy dissipation principle
arXiv:1003.0563 · doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2010.02.066
Abstract
We compare the collective phenomena in physics and cooperative phenomena in bio logy/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.
Preprint, 11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Physics Letters A, appeared in 2010