PIRSA:10110077

Quantum Life

Lloyd, S. (2010). Quantum Life. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/10110077

Lloyd, Seth. Quantum Life. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 03, 2010, https://pirsa.org/10110077 

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Seth Lloyd Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory (xQIT)

Talk numberPIRSA:10110077
Collection
Talk Type Public Lectures

Abstract

Recent experimental evidence suggests that living organisms are using quantum mechanics in a sophisticated fashion to enhance the efficiency of photosynthesis. Bacteria are essentially performing a quantum computation to extract energy from light. I will show how plants and bacteria perform quantum information processing, and will discuss how living creatures engage in all sorts of quantum hanky-panky in their efforts to survive and reproduce.