corner
corner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 559–562 (1997)

Ising Quantum Chain is Equivalent to a Model of Biological Evolution

Download: PDF (155 kB) Buy this article Export: BibTeX or EndNote (RIS)

E. Baake
Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Spemannstr. 35, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

M. Baake and H. Wagner
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

See Also: Erratum

Received 3 April 1996; published in the issue dated 20 January 1997

A sequence space model which describes the interplay of mutation and selection in molecular evolution is shown to be equivalent to an Ising quantum chain. Three explicit examples with representative fitness landscapes are discussed and exactly solved with methods from statistical mechanics.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.559
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.559
PACS:
87.10.+e, 05.50.+q, 64.60.Cn, 75.10.-b

See Also

Erratum: E. Baake, M. Baake, and H. Wagner, Ising Quantum Chain is Equivalent to a Model of Biological Evolution [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 559 (1997)], Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1782 (1997).