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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Evolutionary Design in Biological Quantum Computing · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1311.4688/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1311.4688/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Evolutionary Design in Biological Quantum Computing — mentioned by VladRussian2</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6804820</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1311.4688:6804820</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:39:45 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;in the original article they clear that it isn&amp;#x27;t a photon, it is exciton that does the traveling: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.4688v1.pdf &amp;quot;In these systems excitons initiated by the incoming photons should travel really fast throughout a chain of chromophores in order to reach the reaction center where they are converted to chemical energy.&amp;quot; &amp;gt;loss less and super fast way for photons to traverse a random network^1. My understanding is it isn&amp;#x27;t exactly loss less. It is a trade-off. The &amp;quot;natural&amp;quot; QM way of simultaneous multi-path travel is the super fast way of finding the reaction center. The…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1311.4688/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cond-mat.dis-nn</category></item></channel></rss>
