title: Nonlinear quantum phenomena and biophysical aspects of complexity related to health and disease.
abstract: In this paper we discuss living systems as a non-linear self-interacting phenomenon, stabilized by the non-linear interaction between matter and self-created electromagnetic field. Such electromagnetic field can arise, in particular, as the radiation from electrosolitons which mediate the charge transport along macromolecules in metabolic redox processes. The non-linear nature of solitons results in an effective mechanism and leads to the synchronization of redox processes. It allows intra- and intercellular communication and long-range coherence in the system. One peculiar property of solitons is the resonant effect of external weak stimuli on their dynamics, which can explain the mechanism of low-intensity (non-thermal) electromagnetic therapies. We also discuss the stabilizing role of noise and spatial symmetry breaking in living organisms as open dissipative structures far from equilibrium, and health/disease states as the corresponding attractors of the system in the multi-parametric phase diagram. The essential role of electromagnetic potentials in self-regulation and self-healing processes is analyzed, based on the long-range matter-field interaction and fast information transfer, provided by the electromagnetic potentials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nonlinear Condensed Matter Physics, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brizhik
authors.affiliation: Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland-SUPSI, Switzerland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Foletti
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001693:Biological Transport, Active; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction