Collins Conference Room
Seminar
  US Mountain Time

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Cole Mathis (Arizona State University)

Abstract.  Life is a state of matter characterized by a stable pattern of non-equilibrium behavior.  Replication, central to maintenance of pattern, is thought to play an important role in driving the transition from non-living to living matter. Using a kinetic Monte-Carlo simulation of an artificial chemistry, we demonstrate the existence of a phase transition from non-life to life (defined as non-replicating and replicating systems respectively). The transition is first order and occurs spontaneously in the absence of external tuning and has features which differ from those described previously.

Purpose: 
Research Collaboration
SFI Host: 
Josh Grochow

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