Research Article 2026-04-23 posted v1

Motional Narrowing Rescues Entanglement in Biological Radical-Pair Systems: Quantum Error Correction and Reservoir Computing Beyond the Breaking Threshold

H
Hikaru Wakaura QIRI (Quantum Integrated Research Institute Inc.)
T
Taiki Tanimae QIRI (Quantum Integrated Research Institute Inc.)

Abstract

Biological radical-pair systems operate at decoherence rates γeff = 3.25–4.55, far exceeding the entanglement-breaking threshold γc ≈ 0.3 (channel-model-dependent). Standard quantum error correction provably fails (Q1 = 0). We identify three escape routes: (i) motional narrowing from protein tumbling reduces γeff to 0.19–0.27 < γc; (ii) decoherence-free subspace encoding achieves F = 0.99 with 27 enzyme copies (assuming collective noise fraction fcoll ≥ 0.94); (iii) the Petz recovery map with a noisy nuclear-spin reference preserves concurrence C = 0.46 as an information-theoretic bound. Radical-pair quantum reservoir computing (QRC) performance degrades monotonically with noise and correlates with quantum resources (rQFI = −0.52); motional narrowing rescues QRC by 6×, though a classical echo-state network retains an advantage at current simulation scales. These results reframe the quantum brain hypothesis: not quantum computation, but quantum reservoir dynamics enhanced by biologically natural motional narrowing.

Citation Information

@article{hikaruwakaura2026,
  title={Motional Narrowing Rescues Entanglement in Biological Radical-Pair Systems: Quantum Error Correction and Reservoir Computing Beyond the Breaking Threshold},
  author={Hikaru Wakaura and Taiki Tanimae},
  journal={Research Square},
  year={2026},
  doi={https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9493052/v1}
}
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