Equation 1 · Part 17 · What Evolution Actually Found in the Quantum Toolbox
Ending index or upper bound: x_2
What this part means
This label says where the repeated addition, multiplication, or accumulation stops. It sets the last term or end of the range.
Its job in the formula
appears in the bound of this integral. The bound states where the repeated operation starts, ends, or which values it includes.
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The passage around this formula
The best-established non-trivial quantum effect in biology generates none of the excitement the other three cases have attracted, largely because it never needed a correction: enzymatic hydrogen transfer has been recognized as a quantum-tunneling phenomenon, not a classical over-the-barrier reaction, since kinetic isotope effect measurements in the 1980s and 1990s began returning numbers no classical transition-state theory could accommodate. A classical reaction’s kinetic isotope effect — the rate ratio between a protium-substituted and a deuterium-substituted substrate — is bounded by the difference in zero-point vibrational energy between the two isotopes, which caps the semiclassical…
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Σ adds a collection of terms. Π multiplies them. The lower and upper labels tell you which terms belong to the collection.
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