Possibility of high performance quantum computation by superluminal evanescent photons in living systems

Biosystems. 2009 Jun;96(3):242-5. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2009.03.002. Epub 2009 Mar 25.

Abstract

Penrose and Hameroff have suggested that microtubules in living systems function as quantum computers by utilizing evanescent photons. On the basis of the theorem that the evanescent photon is a superluminal particle, the possibility of high performance computation in living systems has been studied. From the theoretical analysis, it is shown that the biological brain can achieve large quantum bits computation compared with the conventional processors at room temperature.

MeSH terms

  • Brain / metabolism*
  • Brain Chemistry*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Computers, Molecular*
  • Luminescent Proteins / chemistry*
  • Luminescent Proteins / metabolism*
  • Models, Neurological*
  • Photons
  • Quantum Theory
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted*

Substances

  • Luminescent Proteins