On the Possibility of Large Upconversions and Mode Coupling between Frohlich States and Visible Photons in Biological Systems

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential for strong coupling between microwave-range Frohlich states and visible photons in biological systems, suggesting a link between quantum coherence phenomena at different frequencies and their biological functions.

Contribution

It proposes a possible large-scale mode coupling mechanism connecting microwave Frohlich states and visible photon emissions in living organisms, a novel idea in quantum biology.

Findings

Potential for large upconversions between Frohlich states and visible photons

Implications for biological roles of quantum coherence

Hypothesized strong mode coupling in biological systems

Abstract

At least two significant roles for large scale quantum coherence in living systems have been suggested: Herbert Fr\"{o}hlich's coherent excitations of nonlinearly coupled ensembles of large polarizable molecules, with frequencies in the microwave region, and Fritz Popp's coherent visible photon emission arising from metabolically active cells. The large difference in frequencies has made it difficult to see these two phenomena as being linked. Here a case is made for a potentially large coupling between these modes, and suggestions are made for the biological roles played by these coherent excitations.