title: Molecular information processing in nonequilibrium copolymerizations.
abstract: We consider general fluctuating copolymerization processes, with or without underlying templates. We study the spatial ordering resulting from the nonequilibrium conditions as well as the information transmitted between the template and the synthesized copolymer. Information transmission turns out to be optimal in the infinite-dissipation limit when no correlations between the monomers are present. By contrast, we show that optimized regimes of information generation may exist when template and correlations effects interact.
authors.affiliation: Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Code Postal 231, Campus Plaine, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium. dandrieu@ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Andrieux
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gaspard
mesh_terms: D008956:Models, Chemical; D011108:Polymers / Q000138:chemical synthesis*
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers