Spring is here -- and we owe much of the season's vibrancy to what SFI Miller Scholar Seth Lloyd likes to call "quantum mechanical hanky panky."
Lloyd is organizing a series of small SFI workshops this spring on the relatively young field of quantum biology, which aims to understand how living things use quantum processes to become more efficient, more sensitive, and generally better than classical physics and chemistry seem to allow.
The workshops will explore the role of quantum mechanics in everything from photosynthesis to bird navigation and our highly discriminating sense of smell.
Read the Santa Fe New Mexican article (April 24, 2011)