Artificial Life in Quantum Technologies

TL;DR

This paper introduces a quantum information protocol that models biological behaviors like self-replication, mutation, and interaction, demonstrating the potential for artificial life and evolution within quantum systems using current technology.

Contribution

It presents a novel quantum formalism to simulate life-like behaviors, enabling experimental realization of artificial life with quantum platforms.

Findings

Quantum models can replicate biological behaviors.

Experimental implementation is feasible with current quantum technologies.

The approach opens new avenues for quantum artificial life research.

Abstract

We develop a quantum information protocol that models the biological behaviors of individuals living in a natural selection scenario. The artificially engineered evolution of the quantum living units shows the fundamental features of life in a common environment, such as self-replication, mutation, interaction of individuals, and death. We propose how to mimic these bio-inspired features in a quantum-mechanical formalism, which allows for an experimental implementation achievable with current quantum platforms. This result paves the way for the realization of artificial life and embodied evolution with quantum technologies.