Quantum Biotechnology
Nicolas P. Mauranyapin, Alex Terrason, Warwick P. Bowen
TL;DR
Quantum biotechnology explores how quantum physics can enhance biological science through improved sensors, imaging, molecular control, and understanding quantum effects in biology, promising future advances in the field.
Contribution
This paper provides an accessible overview of quantum biotechnology, highlighting current capabilities, future prospects, and potential impacts across four key areas.
Findings
Quantum sensors and imaging techniques are advancing biological research.
Quantum effects may improve energy transport and enzyme catalysis.
Biological systems could serve as components in quantum technologies.
Abstract
Quantum technologies leverage the laws of quantum physics to achieve performance advantages in applications ranging from computing to communications and sensing. They have been proposed to have a range of applications in biological science. This includes better microscopes and biosensors, improved simulations of molecular processes, and new capabilities to control the behaviour of biomolecules and chemical reactions. Quantum effects are also predicted, with much debate, to have functional benefits in biology, for instance, allowing more efficient energy transport and improving the rate of enzyme catalysis. Conversely, the robustness of biological systems to disorder from their environment has led to proposals to use them as components within quantum technologies, for instance as light sources for quantum communication systems. Together, this breadth of prospective applications at the…
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