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Finding Genius Podcast

How Is Biology Informed By Quantum Physics? An Expert Explains

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How does quantum physics inform biology at a nanoscale? In what ways does biology exhibit quantum behavior? Clarice D. Aiello, a quantum engineer and Assistant Professor at UCLA, sits down to enlighten us…

Clarice is an expert on nanosensors harnessing room-temperature quantum effects in noisy environments. With her research group, the Quantum Biology Tech (QuBiT) Lab, she performs quantum measurements on "living sensors" (such as proteins, cells, and microorganisms) to better understand how they interact with their environment. 

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In this episode, we cover:

  • What a quantum engineer is, and what they are trained to observe.
  • What makes quantum objects work very well with sensors. 
  • What "spin" is, and what it tells us about the energy of electrons in a magnetic field. 
  • How to see quantum behavior in biological systems. 
  • What quantum-enhanced information is. 

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1:28.2

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1:38.2

I have Clarice Aiello, she's an assistant professor, quantum engineer at UCLA, and we're going to talk about how quantum physics forms biology at the nether scale and how biology perhaps exhibits quantum-like behavior.

1:50.8

So Clarice, thank you for coming.

1:52.7

Thanks for having me Richard. It's a pleasure to talk to you and to your audience.

1:57.2

Tell me a bit about your background and how you got interested in this area.

2:00.4

Okay, so I like to call myself a quantum engineer. This means that I do instruments to study and control things that are so small and so well protected from their environment that they're usually better described by the lost quantum mechanics as opposed to the laws of classical mechanics that rule everything big around us.

2:16.4

So I am trained in a field called quantum sensing. You can actually prove that if you use a quantum object, for example, an electron as a sensor,

2:26.5

your measurement is improved. In other words, the sensor-quantleness enhances your measurement. This one of the field that I was trained in, I used to work with a sensor.

2:35.9

What does that mean? It's a quantum sensor because the energy levels of a captured like on a discrete is that why it's quantized a quantum sensor or a definition?

2:44.8

No, so that's the cool part of it. So as you know, in some of your audience might know, at the quantum level, energy is quantized so that, say, an electron can have only a discreet.

2:56.4

Energy levels, the spectrum of energy that an electron can have is sort of like segment. What makes quantum object work very well as sensors is the fact that they can be put into superposition state.

3:09.4

So for example, electron spin. So spin is a fundamental quantum property of matter. It doesn't have a classical count and spin measures how well an object interacts with the magnetic in the same way that charges measures how well an object interacts with an electric field.

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