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QED-cavity model of microtubules implies dissipationless energy transfer and biological quantum teleportation

N. Mavromatos, Andreas Mershin, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos

2002

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Abstract

We refine a QED-cavity model of microtubules (MTs), proposed earlier by two of the authors (N.E.M. and D.V.N.), and suggest mechanisms for the formation of biomolecular mesoscopic coherent and/or entangled quantum states, which may avoid decoherence for times comparable to biological characteristic times. This refined model predicts dissipationless energy transfer along such "shielded" macromolecules near room temperatures as well as quantum teleportation of states across MTs and perhaps neurons.

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