Time-Irreversible Quantum-Classical Dynamics of Molecular Models in the Brain

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00016v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:12:12 GMT
• Title: Time-Irreversible Quantum-Classical Dynamics of Molecular Models in the Brain
• Authors: Alessandro Sergi, Antonino Messina, Rosalba Saija, Gabriella Martino, Maria Teresa Caccamo, Min-Fang Kuo, Michael A. Nitsche,
• Abstract summary: This manuscript aims to illustrate a quantum-classical dissipative theory within the long-term project of studying molecular processes in the brain.<n>The theory must be dissipative not because of formal requirements but because brain processes appear to be dissipative at the molecular, physiological, and high functional levels.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This manuscript aims to illustrate a quantum-classical dissipative theory (suited to be converted to effective algorithms for numerical simulations) within the long-term project of studying molecular processes in the brain. Other approaches, briefly sketched in the text, have advocated the need to deal with both quantum and classical dynamic variables when studying the brain. At variance with these other frameworks, the manuscript's formalism allows us to explicitly treat the classical dynamical variables. The theory must be dissipative not because of formal requirements but because brain processes appear to be dissipative at the molecular, physiological, and high functional levels. We discuss theoretically that using Brownian dynamics or the Nos\`e-Hoover-Chain thermostat to perform computer simulations provides an effective way to introduce an arrow of time for open quantum systems in a classical environment. In the future, We plan to study classical models of neurons and astrocytes, as well as their networks, coupled to quantum dynamical variables describing, e.g., nuclear and electron spins, HOMO and LUMO orbitals of phenyl and indole rings, ion channels, and tunneling protons.

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