Quantum computation in the neuronal microtubules: quantum gates, ordered water and superradiance

Impairment of consciousness in Alzheimer's disease: the amyloid water-filled nanotubes manifest quantum optical coherence interfering with the normal QBD?

Recent discovery by Perutz et al. of the physical structure of the amyloid that accumulates in neurons in certain neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease or Huntington's disease, suggests novel mechanism of consciousness impairment, different from the neuronal loss, which is the end stage of the pathogenic process. Amyloid is shown to be water-filled nanotubes made of polymerized pathologically-changed proteins. It is hypothesized that the water inside the new-formed nanotubes can manifest optical coherent laser-like excitations and superradiance similarly to the processes taking p…

神经蛋白结构中量子增强的光保护作用源于集体光-物质相互作用

Quantum-enhanced photoprotection in neuroprotein architectures emerges from collective light-matter interactions

研究神经蛋白结构中集体量子光学效应，揭示超辐射现象在光-物质相互作用中的作用，预测超辐射态在微管和淀粉样纤维中的量子产率增强，为体内实验提供依据。