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Physics of life: The dawn of quantum biology

The key to practical quantum computing and high-efficiency solar cells may lie in the messy green world outside the physics lab.

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Ball, P. Physics of life: The dawn of quantum biology. Nature 474, 272–274 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/474272a

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