Qed-Cavity Model of Microtubules Implies Dissipationless Energy Transfer and Biological Quantum Teleportation

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 at near room temperatures as well as quantum teleportation of states across MTs and perhaps neurons.

Photons Do Collapse In the Retina Not in the Brain Cortex: Evidence from Visual Illusions

“…Lastly, we again refer the reader to the optical illusion presented in Figure 3, which clearly shows the visual image is not transmitted pixel by pixel; hence individual photons could not be teleported. Mavromatos et al (2002) define teleportation as the complete transfer of the coherent state of a microtubule without any direct transfer of mass or energy 31 . This means that the "receiver" microtubule finds itself in an identical state to the "sender" microtubule.…”

Surface plasmon resonance study of the actin-myosin sarcomeric complex and tubulin dimers

“…Dipole-dipole interactions among tubulin molecules are thought to be major components of the force responsible for this polymerization [15]. The cytoskeleton has also been hypothesized to be central in cellular information processing [16] and suggested as a possible candidate for implementation of biological and/or quantum computation schemes [17]. The β-tubulin monomer can bind guanosine 5' triphosphate (GTP) in which case it exists in an energy-rich form that favors polymerization (self assembly), or it can bind guanosine 5' diphosphate (GDP-tubulin) thus being in an energy-poor form (GDP-tubulin) that favors dissociation.…”

“…This change has been modeled as resulting in a 27 o angle [19] between the original line connecting the centres of the α-and β-monomers and the new centre-to-centre line. These two conformational states and their associated dipole moments have been proposed as the basis for a binary system for information storage and manipulation [17,20]. Measuring the refractive index and consequently the highfrequency dielectric constant of tubulin in solution are important for the experimental determination of the dipole moment of tubulin and eventual implementation of schemes where laser light couples to stable tubulin networks effecting conformational changes and thus encoding information.…”

Neuronic system inside neurons: molecular biology and biophysics of neuronal microtubules

“…The electron hopping was suggested as transforming the conformation of the tubulin dimer from "straight" into "curved" state and vice versa. This simplified model was further refined by different research teams (6)(7)(8) who advocated that the electron inside the dimer pocket could exhibit quantum effects like superposition and entanglement with electrons from other dimer pockets. A common feature for this class of models was the speculation that the energy required for the computation could be delivered via hydrolysis of tubulin-bound guanosine triphosphate (GTP) (9,10).…”