Experimental proposal for testing the Emergence of Environment Induced (EIN) Classical Selection rules with Biological Systems

TL;DR

This paper proposes an experimental approach to test how classical behavior emerges from quantum systems in biological contexts, focusing on the potential presence of entanglement in biophotonic radiation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel experimental proposal to detect quantum entanglement in biological systems, exploring the quantum-to-classical transition in living organisms.

Findings

Proposal to measure entanglement in biophotonic emissions

Insight into the quantum evolution of biological systems

Potential evidence of quantum effects in biology

Abstract

According to the so-called Quantum Darwinist approach, the emergence of "classical islands" from a quantum background is assumed to obey a (selection) principle of maximal information. We illustrate this idea by considering the coupling of two oscillators (modes). As our approach suggests that the classical limit could have emerged throughout a long and progressive Evolution mechanism, it is likely that primitive living organisms behave in a "more quantum", "less classical" way than more evolved ones. This brings us to seriously consider the possibility to measure departures from classicality exhibited by biological systems. We describe an experimental proposal the aimed at revealing the presence of entanglement in the biophotonic radiation emitted by biological sources.