9 papers
Dark energy and quantum entanglement
Mark Ya. Azbel'
Entangled states in the universe may change interpretation of observations and even revise the concept of dark energy.
Comment on Why is the DNA Transition First Order? and Griffiths Singularities in Unbinding of Strongly Disordered Polymers
Mark Ya. Azbel
The papers [1,2] consider unbinding of a disordered heteropolymer. They find the first order phase transition [1] when disorder is strong (i.e. the ratio v of the binding energies…
Dynamics of mortality in protected populations
Mark Ya. Azbel'
Demographic data and recent experiments verify earlier predictions that mortality has short (few percent of the life span) memory of the previous life history, may be significantly…
Immortality as a physical problem
Mark Ya. Azbel'
Well protected human and laboratory animal populations with abundant resources are evolutionary unprecedented. Physical approach, which takes advantage of their extensively quantif…
Why humans die -- an unsolved biological problem
Mark Ya. Azbel'
Mortality is an instrument of natural selection. Evolutionary motivated theories imply its irreversibility and life history dependence. This is inconsistent with mortality data for…
Long range interaction yields a new kind of phase transition
Mark Ya. Azbel'
DNA denaturation, wetting in two dimensions, depinning of a flux line, and other problems map onto a phase transition with effective long range interaction. It yields giant non-uni…