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Approaching the Quantum Limit of Energy Resolution in Animal Magnetoreception

I. K. Kominis* and E. Gkoudinakis

  • Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion 70013, Greece

  • *Contact author: ikominis@uoc.gr

PRX Life 3, 013004 – Published 16 January, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXLife.3.013004

Abstract

A large number of magnetic sensors, like superconducting quantum interference devices, optical pumping, and nitrogen vacancy magnetometers, were shown to satisfy the energy resolution limit. This limit states that the magnetic sensitivity of the sensor, when translated into a product of energy with time, is bounded below by Planck's constant, . This bound implies a fundamental limitation as to what can be achieved in magnetic sensing. Here we explore biological magnetometers, in particular three magnetoreception mechanisms thought to underly animals' geomagnetic field sensing: the radical-pair, the magnetite, and the MagR mechanism. We address the question of how close these mechanisms approach the energy resolution limit. At the quantitative level, the utility of the energy resolution limit is that it informs the workings of magnetic sensing in model-independent ways and thus can provide subtle consistency checks for theoretical models and estimated or measured parameter values, particularly needed in complex biological systems. At the qualitative level, the closer the energy resolution is to , the more “quantum” is the sensor. This offers an alternative route towards understanding the quantum biology of magnetoreception. It also quantifies the room for improvement, illuminating what nature has achieved, and stimulating the engineering of biomimetic sensors exceeding nature's magnetic sensing performance.

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Biological Magnetic Sensing Comes Close to Quantum Limit

Published 16 January, 2025

Researchers find that two types of biological magnetic sensor can sense fields close to the quantum limit, a finding that could guide the design of lab-made devices.

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