References — BotBuhdy Quantum

〰️ Double Slit & Quantum Foundations

Young, T. (1801)

On the Theory of Light and Colours (Double-slit first demonstrated with light)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 92, 12–48

Davisson, C. & Germer, L. H. (1927)

Diffraction of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel (First electron double-slit equivalent)

Physical Review, 30(6), 705–740 — doi:10.1103/PhysRev.30.705

Feynman, R. P., Leighton, R. B., & Sands, M. (1965)

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III — Quantum Mechanics

Addison-Wesley. Classic lectures including the double-slit thought experiment ("the only mystery of quantum mechanics")

Feynman, R. P. (1965)

The Character of Physical Law

MIT Press. Lecture 6: "Probability and Uncertainty — the Quantum Mechanical View of Nature"

Arndt, M., et al. (1999)

Wave–particle duality of C₆₀ molecules

Nature, 401, 680–682 — doi:10.1038/44348 (First double-slit with buckyballs)

Bell, J. S. (1964)

On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox

Physics Physique Fizika, 1(3), 195–200. The foundational paper establishing Bell's theorem

Hensen, B., et al. (2015)

Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres

Nature, 526, 682–686 — doi:10.1038/nature15759 (Definitive experimental test)

⏮️ Delayed Choice & Quantum Eraser

Wheeler, J. A. (1978)

The "Past" and the "Delayed-Choice" Double-Slit Experiment

In A. R. Marlow (Ed.), Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Theory. Academic Press. (Original delayed-choice proposal)

Kim, Y.-H., Yu, R., Kulik, S. P., Shih, Y., & Scully, M. O. (2000)

Delayed "Choice" Quantum Eraser

Physical Review Letters, 84(1), 1–5 — doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1 · arXiv: quant-ph/9903047 (The seminal 1999 experiment)

Peruzzo, A., et al. (2012)

A quantum delayed-choice experiment

Science, 338(6107), 634–637 — doi:10.1126/science.1226719

Chaves, R., et al. (2023)

Observations of the delayed-choice quantum eraser using coherent photons

Scientific Reports — 2023 confirmation using coherent photon source

Haroche, S. & Wineland, D. J. (2012)

Nobel Prize in Physics 2012

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences — "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems without destroying them"

🔷 High-Dimensional Topology in Quantum Light

Ornelas, P., de Mello Koch, R., Forbes, A., et al. (2025)

The topological spectrum of high dimensional quantum states

arXiv:2503.12540 — Submitted March 2025. Key discovery: 48 dimensions, 17,000+ signatures in OAM of entangled photons

ScienceDaily (March–April 2026)

Quantum Light Reveals 48 Dimensional Topological Structures

Science press coverage of Ornelas et al. 2025 paper, University of the Witwatersrand press release

Padgett, M. J. & Allen, L. (1995)

The Poynting vector in Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes (OAM foundations)

Optics Communications, 121(1–3), 36–40 — doi:10.1016/0030-4018(95)00455-H

🧬 Quantum Biology

Engel, G. S., et al. (2007)

Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems

Nature, 446, 782–786 — doi:10.1038/nature05678 (Fleming group, UC Berkeley)

Panitchayangkoon, G., et al. (2010)

Long-lived quantum coherence in photosynthetic complexes at physiological temperature

PNAS, 107(28), 12766–12771 — doi:10.1073/pnas.1005484107 (Fleming group)

Orekhov, A., et al. (2026)

Post-Experimental Analysis of the Light-Harvesting Protein–Pigment Complex Present in Green Sulfur Bacteria

Symmetry, 18(2), 373 — doi:10.3390/sym18020373

Kim, J. (2020)

Quantum biology revisited

Science Advances — doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaz4888

Xu, J., et al. (2024)

Magnetosensitivity of tightly bound radical pairs in cryptochrome is enabled by the quantum Zeno effect

Nature Communications — doi:10.1038/s41467-024-55124-x

Hiscock, H. G., et al. (2016)

The quantum needle of the avian magnetic compass

PNAS, 113(17), 4634–4639 — doi:10.1073/pnas.1600341113 (Hore group, Oxford)

Luo, J., et al. (2024)

Orientation of birds in radiofrequency fields in the absence of the Earth's magnetic field

Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 21(217) — doi:10.1098/rsif.20240133

The Guardian (2025)

Robin cryptochrome 4 magnetoreception experiments (March 23, 2025)

Science journalism covering experimental confirmation of radical-pair mechanism; primary paper accessible via referenced research group

Klinman, J. P. (2013)

Hydrogen tunneling links protein dynamics to enzyme catalysis

Accounts of Chemical Research, 46(11), 2343–2351 — doi:10.1021/ar300298z (UC Berkeley)

Kohen, A. & Klinman, J. P. (1999)

Hydrogen tunneling in biology

Chemistry & Biology, 6(7), R191–R198 — doi:10.1016/S1074-5521(99)80058-1

Turin, L. & Yoshii, F. (2003)

Structure–odor relations: a modern perspective

In Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation (2nd ed.). Marcel Dekker. (Vibration theory of smell)

Brookes, J. C. (2018)

Status of the Vibrational Theory of Olfaction

Frontiers in Physics — doi:10.3389/fphy.2018.00025

Penrose, R. & Hameroff, S. (2014)

Consciousness in the universe: A review of the "Orch OR" theory

Physics of Life Reviews, 11(1), 39–78 — doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2013.08.002

Wiest, M. C. (2025)

A quantum microtubule substrate of consciousness is experimentally supported and superior to its classical alternatives

Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2025(1), niaf011 — doi:10.1093/nc/niaf011

Wiest, M. C. (2025)

Conscious active inference II: Quantum orchestrated objective reduction among intraneuronal microtubules…

Current Research in Neurobiology — 2025 (Orch-OR and active inference)

Slocombe, L., et al. (2022)

An open quantum systems approach to proton tunnelling in DNA

Communications Physics, 5, 119 — doi:10.1038/s42005-022-00881-8

Gheorghiu, A., et al. (2023)

Quantum Tunnelling Effects in the Guanine-Thymine Wobble Misincorporation via Tautomerism

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters — doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03171

Scientific American (2024)

Quantum Tunneling Makes DNA More Unstable Than Classical Models Predict

May 2, 2024. Popular science coverage of DNA tunneling research

💻 Quantum Computing

Google Quantum AI (2024)

Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold

Nature — doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08449-y (Google Willow processor; first below-threshold QEC)

Google Research (2026)

Dynamic surface codes open new avenues for quantum error correction

Google Research Blog, 2026

IBM Quantum (2024–2025)

IBM lays out clear path to fault-tolerant quantum computing (qLDPC codes)

IBM Quantum Blog — ibm.com/quantum/blog/large-scale-ftqc

IonQ (2024–2026)

IonQ Technology Roadmap: 99.6% → 99.9% fidelity; CRQC by ~2028

ionq.com/roadmap

QuEra Computing (2025)

Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays; magic state distillation advances

QuEra press releases and technical publications, 2025

Riverlane (2025–2026)

Quantum Error Correction: Our 2025 Trends and 2026 Predictions

riverlane.com/blog/quantum-error-correction-our-2025-trends-and-2026-predictions

IonQ & Ansys (2025)

Medical device simulation on 36-qubit IonQ system: 12% improvement over classical HPC

IonQ press release, 2025

McKinsey & Company (2025)

The Year of Quantum: From Concept to Reality in 2025

McKinsey Technology Report, 2025

Preskill, J. (2018)

Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era and Beyond

Quantum, 2, 79 — doi:10.22331/q-2018-08-06-79 (NISQ terminology; landscape overview)

🌐 Simulation Theory & Philosophy of Physics

Bostrom, N. (2003)

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?

Philosophical Quarterly, 53(211), 243–255 — simulation.com

Wheeler, J. A. (1990)

Information, physics, quantum: The search for links ("It from Bit")

In W. H. Zurek (Ed.), Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information. Addison-Wesley.

Hoffman, D. D. (2019)

The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

W.W. Norton & Company

Campbell, T. (2007)

My Big TOE: A Trilogy — Awakening, Discovery, Inner Workings

Lightning Strike Books. Consciousness-based simulation model.

Hossenfelder, S. (2021)

The delayed choice quantum eraser, debunked

Backreaction blog, backreaction.blogspot.com — critical analysis of popular interpretations

Carroll, S. (2019)

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Dutton. Many-Worlds perspective; discussion of delayed-choice eraser

't Hooft, G. (1993)

Dimensional Reduction in Quantum Gravity (Holographic Principle)

arXiv: gr-qc/9310026

Zurek, W. H. (2003)

Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical

Reviews of Modern Physics, 75(3), 715–775 — doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.75.715

📖 Recommended Further Reading & Viewing

PBS Space Time (YouTube)

Excellent visual explanations of delayed-choice, Many-Worlds, decoherence, and quantum computing fundamentals

Sean Carroll's Mindscape Podcast

In-depth interviews with leading physicists on quantum foundations, consciousness, and cosmology

Sabine Hossenfelder's YouTube Channel (Backreaction)

Critical, no-nonsense takes on quantum interpretations and popular physics claims

Jim Al-Khalili & Johnjoe McFadden — Life on the Edge (2014)

Crown Publishers. The definitive accessible introduction to quantum biology

Roger Penrose — The Road to Reality (2004)

Knopf. Comprehensive mathematical physics; includes Orch-OR foundations

arXiv Preprint Server (quant-ph, cond-mat)

arxiv.org — The most current research in quantum physics and quantum biology, often before journal publication