Quantum Energy Transfer

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Quantum phenomena create possibilities for improving energy transfer.

1. **Quantum Energy Teleportation**:

  - In 2008, physicist Masahiro Hotta proposed a quantum energy teleportation protocol¹. It allows energy to be borrowed from a distant location without violating any fundamental physical principles.
  - The energy isn't free; it must be unlocked using knowledge purchased with energy from a far-off location.
  - Researchers have recently demonstrated this phenomenon by teleporting energy across microscopic distances in quantum devices¹.
  - While still in its early stages, quantum energy teleportation could revolutionize energy transmission and storage.

2. **Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect (QAH)**:

  - QAH materials exhibit a unique property: the flow of electrons along their edges doesn't lose energy⁴.
  - Researchers have found a way to electronically alter the direction of electron flow in QAH insulators, critical for optimizing information transfer and storage in quantum technologies⁴.
  - This method avoids the need for external magnets and offers faster control over electron flow⁴.

3. **Exchange Interaction**:

  - Quantum particles are fundamentally indistinguishable, and their wave functions exhibit exchange symmetry.
  - The exchange interaction arises from this symmetry combined with the Coulomb interaction.
  - It plays a crucial role in ferromagnetism and has no classical analogue¹².

In summary, quantum phenomena like energy teleportation and the QAH effect hold promise for more efficient energy transfer and storage in future electronic devices and quantum computers. Exciting times lie ahead as we explore these quantum frontiers!

Source: Conversation with Copilot, 5/22/2024

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Photosynthesis

The quirks of quantum physics are something you might expect to find under exotic conditions in a laboratory, but not in a meadow. Yet in recent years, a blossoming idea called quantum biology proposes that life’s molecular mechanisms deploy some of those notoriously counterintuitive behaviours. Ten years ago, researchers reported evidence that photosynthesis – the process by which green plants and some bacteria turn sunlight into chemical energy – gains light-harvesting efficiency by exploiting the phenomenon of “quantum coherence”. This involves the superpositions of electronic quantum states, which seem able to explore many energy-transmitting pathways at once. If so, quantum mechanics is assisting the fundamental energetic process that drives all life on the surface of the Earth.

It was a remarkable claim. But was it true? The question has been hotly debated over the past decade. Early talk of “quantum coherence” in photosynthesis being akin to that in quantum computers, where it underpins the faster and more efficient computation that those devices achieve, has now largely evaporated in favor of a more nuanced picture. And some researchers insist that such coherence plays no useful role in photosynthesis at all.

On the one hand, Greg Engel of the University of Chicago, who was involved in the initial work suggesting quantum coherence as a new design principle of nature, says that “the general notion that the language and mathematics of quantum information, including coherence, can be used to understand photosynthetic dynamics in ultra-fast spectroscopy experiments seems to be growing in acceptance”. But biophysical chemist Sebastian Westenhoff of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden says that ever more scientists in the field regard the earlier work as a misinterpretation, and that “there is no such thing as quantum coherence in [natural] photosynthesis”.

The Quantum Mechanics of Photosynthesis (2022-01-28) https://www.azoquantum.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=281

Strong evidence has emerged that quantum coherence is playing an important role in certain selected biological processes [1-3]. The strongest evidence for quantum coherence occurs in photosynthesis, which will form the main topic of this paper (a review of the mechanisms for photosynthesis can be found in [4]. Indirect evidence for quantum coherence also appears in bird navigation [5-6] – the so-called ‘avian compass’ – and in the sense of smell [7-8]. Before turning to photosynthesis, I will review the evidence for quantum effects in these biological mechanisms.

1. The avian compass. Some birds, such as homing pigeons, possess a small piece of magnetite in their beaks which functions as a compass, allowing them to tell North from South.
2. Sense of smell. The conventional mechanism postulated for smell is a lock and key model, in which different types of odorant molecule bind to different types of olfactory sensors. The different types of olfactory sensors in the human nose have been identified