Complex behavior in biosystems: an information-theoretic approach

The particular question of transport of vibrational energy in biosystems is considered within the scope of Fröhlich–Davydovʹs model. It is shown that Davydovʹs solitary waves, strongly damped in near equilibrium conditions, can display long-range propagation when travelling in Fröhlichʹs condensate. The latter consists in the emergence of a self-organized dissipative structure (in Prigogineʹs sense), resembling a nonequilibrium Bose–Einstein-like condensation in the low-lying in frequency modes of vibration, once a critical level of pumping of metabolic energy is achieved.