title: Possibility of high performance quantum computation by superluminal evanescent photons in living systems.
abstract: Penrose and Hameroff have suggested that microtubules in living systems function as quantum computers by utilizing evanescent photons. On the basis of the theorem that the evanescent photon is a superluminal particle, the possibility of high performance computation in living systems has been studied. From the theoretical analysis, it is shown that the biological brain can achieve large quantum bits computation compared with the conventional processors at room temperature.
authors.affiliation: Technical Research & Development Institute, 3-11-7-601, Namiki, Kanazwa-ku, Yokohama 236-0005, Japan. musha@cs.trdi.mod.go.jp
authors.forename: Takaaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Musha
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D003198:Computer Simulation; D039301:Computers, Molecular; D008164:Luminescent Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D017785:Photons; D011789:Quantum Theory; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
chemical_list: D008164:Luminescent Proteins