Nicole Yunger Halpern (Harvard) will be giving a quantum information theory seminar this Friday. Friday, Feb. 8, 2-3 pm in the Cosman Room (6C-442) Title: Quantum information in quantum cognition Matthew Fisher recently postulated a mechanism by which quantum phenomena could influence cognition: Phosphorous nuclear spins may resist decoherence for long times. The spins would serve as biological qubits. The qubits may resist decoherence longer when in Posner molecules. We imagine that Fisher postulates correctly. How adroitly could biological systems process quantum information (QI)? We establish a framework for answering. Additionally, we construct applications of biological qubits to quantum error correction, quantum communication, an quantum computation. NYH and Crosson, https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04801 _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip