2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2002
Mutation-Selection Balance: Ancestry, Load, and Maximum Principle
Joachim Hermisson, Oliver Redner, Holger Wagner +1
We show how concepts from statistical physics, such as order parameter, thermodynamic limit, and quantum phase transition, translate into biological concepts in mutation-selection…
cond-mat.stat-mech2000
Four-state quantum chain as a model of sequence evolution
Joachim Hermisson, Holger Wagner, Michael Baake
A variety of selection-mutation models for DNA (or RNA) sequences, well known in molecular evolution, can be translated into a model of coupled Ising quantum chains. This correspon…