BZ Energy plot --- Note the flow of Energy in the four directions

For more information on this phenomenon, see http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/B-ZReaction
CHEMICAL PHYSICS

VOLUME 121, NUMBER 3

15 JULY 2004

Quantum aspects of self-organized periodic chemical reactions Jifi J. Mares,a) Jifi Stavek, and Jaroslav Sestak Institute of Physics ASCR. Cukrovarnicka /0. Prague 6, /6253. Czech Republic (Received 29 March 2004; accepted 26 April 2004) It is a remarkable empirical fact, known for a long time, that in certain self-organized periodic chemical reactions, such as Liesegang's or Belousov-Zhabotinsky's reactions, the product of molecular weight of precipitate, precipitation length period, and speed of precipitation is of the order of universal Planck's quantum of action h. Based on the fact that the classical and quantum diffusions are processes, which are indistinguishable in the configuration space, a quantum criterion in tenns of diffusion constants has been established. This criterion enables one to find out conditions under which the quantum behavior of self-organized periodic reactions can be observed.
2004 American Institute of Physics. [DOl: 10.1063/1.1763574]