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The energy supplied to the Fröhlich vibration system in a living cell may condense in certain normal modes provided the coupling of the vibration system with a heat bath is nonlinear. The strong coupling of a coherent vibration system with a heat bath causes reduced energy condensation; high frequency modes are not excited and the energy condensed in the lowest frequency mode is smaller than the energy condensed in a system with weak coupling. The vibrations are polar and generate an electromagnetic field. The electromagnetic field mediates a long range interaction between the Fröhlich vibration systems; the interaction depends on the intensity of the generated electromagnetic field, and, therefore, on the energy condensed in the vibration system. The systems with strong coupling with a heat bath have weak interaction forces, which may be attractive as well as repulsive. The effect of coupling with a heat bath on interaction between the Fröhlich systems is a new contribution of this paper. The coherent vibration systems are assumed to be excited in protein molecules in cellular membranes. Protein phosphorylation may cause the strong Coulomb coupling of vibration systems with a heat bath and may have a fundamental effect on energy condensation.
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Pokorný, J., Fiala, J. Heat bath coupling effects on interaction between Fröhlich vibration systems. Czech J Phys 44, 67–78 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01691751
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