Plausibility of Quantum Coherent States in Biological Systems
Biological Physics
2015-05-20 v1 Neurons and Cognition
Quantum Physics
Abstract
In this paper we briefly discuss the necessity of using quantum mechanics as a fundamental theory applicable to some key functional aspects of biological systems. This is especially relevant to three important parts of a neuron in the human brain, namely the cell membrane, microtubules (MT) and ion channels. We argue that the recently published papers criticizing the use of quantum theory in these systems are not convincing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1012.3879,
title = {Plausibility of Quantum Coherent States in Biological Systems},
author = {V. Salari and J. Tuszynski and M. Rahnama and G. Bernroider},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.3879},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, no figures. DICE 2010, In press in Journal of Physics, Conf. Ser