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4. Ibid.
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8. Ibid.
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10. See Mark Anderson, ‘Study bolsters quantum vibration scent theory’, Scientific American, 28 January 2013; see also https://www.ted.com/talks/luca_turin_on_the_science_of_scent and ‘Smells, spanners, and switches’ by Luca Turin, inference-review.com, vol. 2, no. 2 (2016).
11. An excellent critical review of the subject is given by Ross D. Hoehn et al., ‘Status of the vibrational theory of olfaction’, Frontiers in Physics, 19 March 2018; doi: 10.3389/fphy.2018.00025.
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13. The issue here is that there are different types of noise and their disruptive effects on quantum systems can be very different. Recent calculations have identified a regime in which a certain form of noise paradoxically enhances quantum transport effects. See, for example, S. F. Huelga and M. B. Plenio, ‘Vibrations, quanta and biology’, Contemporary Physics, vol. 54, no. 4, 181–207 (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00405000.2013.829687. See also reference 6.
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