Talk

Monday, April 11, 2016

Speaker
Iannis Kominis
Affiliation
Department of Physics, University of Crete
Title
Quantum Biology, the new Synthesis
Location
Computer Science Dept., ground floor, room A2 (A115-A117)
Time
16:00
Language
English
Abstract

Quantum information science has capitalized on the "quantum advantage" in information processing stemming from quantum coherence and entanglement. Naively, it was thought that such advantage pertains only to well-isolated quantum systems carefully engineered by man. Yet again, we now discover that Nature got there first. During her billion-year-old research and development program, Nature has already managed to harness non-trivial quantum effects. In this talk I will demonstrate that two major paradigms establishing the new interdisciplinary science of quantum biology, photosynthesis and avian magnetic compass, are surprisingly apt quantum-information-technology realizations.