AVOIDING CHAOS. "The credibility of quantum biology therefore hinges on the extent to which decoherence evasion might be possible in real biological systems." https://lnkd.in/e2T5qPj View in LinkedIn
NANO VERSUS BIO. "On the face of it, quantum effects and living organisms seem to occupy utterly different realms. The former are usually observed only on the nanometre scale, surrounded by hard vacuum, ultra-low temperatures and a tightly controlled laboratory environment. The latter inhabit a macroscopic world that is warm, messy and anything but controlled." https://lnkd.in/eDJed9B View in LinkedIn
CORRECT COMPLEXITY. "We give a new explanation for why some biological systems can stay quantum coherent for a long time at room temperature, one of the fundamental puzzles of quantum biology." https://lnkd.in/ec-BymT View in LinkedIn
CORRECT COMPLEXITY. "We show that systems with the right level of complexity between chaos and regularity can increase their coherence time by orders of magnitude." https://lnkd.in/ec-BymT View in LinkedIn
"LIFE -- WARM, WET AND NOISY. A primary issue is decoherence, a process where the phases of quantum wavefunctions are randomized to reduce quantum phenomena to classical processes. Decoherence arises from dynamic disorder, or “energy noise”, and is expected to be extremely rapid in biological environments." https://lnkd.in/e7kcPri View in LinkedIn
NUANCED QUANTUMS. "In the recent years experimental measurements have uncovered fine quantum effects (FQE) in biological systems. These FQE may appear as surprising given the warm soft nature of biological media, as opposed to the cold hard world where quantum effects dominate." https://lnkd.in/eMTJFEQ View in LinkedIn
BAD VIBRATIONS. "Quantum coherence is an immensely delicate phenomenon, depending on those in-tune particle waves. To maintain it, physicists usually have to enclose their systems within near-perfect vacuums and cool them down to very close to absolute zero temperature to freeze out any heat-driven molecular motion. Molecular vibrations are the mortal enemy of quantum coherence." https://lnkd.in/eYXPebN View in LinkedIn
ORDERED COMPLEXITY. "How does life maintain its molecular order long enough to perform its quantum tricks in warm and wet cells?" https://lnkd.in/eYXPebN View in LinkedIn
VAST TIME AND DISTANCE CYCLES. "It appears that living systems are governed by cycles and correlations, requiring massive cooperation across a large range of time and length scales. At the macroscopic level we see functional periodic changes such as circadian rhythms and seasonal variations, whose regulation cannot be explained by a simple mechanical ‘switch’." https://lnkd.in/e7kcPri View in LinkedIn