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The recent rapid advances in silicon based electronics and the information processing technology it has generated cannot be expected to continue. Of the obstacles which lie in the way, perhaps the most fundamental is that of the quantum mechanical restrictions imposed by the discrete nature of matter and the way it interacts over the short length scales envisaged for future generations of electronic components.
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Mavromatos, N.E., Powell, A.K. (2004). On the Possibility of Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems with Application to Quantum Computing. In: Elze, HT. (eds) Decoherence and Entropy in Complex Systems. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 633. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40968-7_21
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