I think this is a surprisingly neat effect, but that the effect powering bird’s magnetic sense can’t actually work for quantum computing, and that as a general rule due to decoherence, we shouldn’t expect evolved systems to be able to do quantum computing.
For this effect to work, it needs a coherence time of at least 100 microseconds, which is long relative to what you would expect in a warm & wet environment, but short compared to the time scales humans usually operate on.
I forgot to mention another issue, in that the form of quantumness isn’t scalable. We’ve already tried using this technique, and it doesn’t work for scalable, low error rate quantum computing.
I think this is a surprisingly neat effect, but that the effect powering bird’s magnetic sense can’t actually work for quantum computing, and that as a general rule due to decoherence, we shouldn’t expect evolved systems to be able to do quantum computing.
For this effect to work, it needs a coherence time of at least 100 microseconds, which is long relative to what you would expect in a warm & wet environment, but short compared to the time scales humans usually operate on.
I forgot to mention another issue, in that the form of quantumness isn’t scalable. We’ve already tried using this technique, and it doesn’t work for scalable, low error rate quantum computing.