How Is Biology Informed By Quantum Physics? An Expert Explains
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 43 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.
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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| 0:37.3 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, now part of the Finding |
| 0:41.8 | Genius Foundation. |
| 0:42.8 | I have Clarice Ayello. |
| 0:43.8 | She's an assistant professor, quantum engineer at UCLA. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm going to talk about how quantum physics forms biology at the nanoscale and how it, you know, |
| 0:52.9 | how biology perhaps exhibits quantum-like behavior. |
| 0:55.6 | So, Clarice, thank you for coming. |
| 0:57.4 | Thanks for having me, Richard. |
| 0:58.9 | It's a pleasure to talk to you and to your audience. |
| 1:01.8 | Well, tell me a bit about your background and how you got interested in this area. |
| 1:05.1 | Okay, so I like to call myself a quantum engineer. |
| 1:07.9 | This means that I build 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 loss quantum mechanics, as opposed to the laws of classical mechanics that rule everything big around us. 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 |
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