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Quantum Interference and Selectivity through Biological Ion Channels.
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- Legget-Garg inequality for a quantum model of ion channels.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Quantum Capacity of Continuously Observed Ion Channels.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Quantum biology: From mechanisms to medicine.Clinical and translational medicine · 2026Review
- Mimicking classical noise in ion channels by quantum decoherence.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Quantum coherence on selectivity and transport of ion channels.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Mathematical Modeling of Ion Quantum Tunneling Reveals Novel Properties of Voltage-Gated Channels and Quantum Aspects of Their Pathophysiology in Excitability-Related Disorders.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2021Article
- Information transmission in microbial and fungal communication: from classical to quantum.Journal of cell communication and signaling · 2018Article
- Microtubule Disruption Without Learning Impairment in the Unicellular Organism, Paramecium: Implications for Information Processing in Microtubules.Basic and clinical neuroscienceArticle
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Abstract
The mechanism of selectivity in ion channels is still an open question in biology for more than half a century. Here, we suggest that quantum interference can be a solution to explain the selectivity mechanism in ion channels since interference happens between similar ions through the same size of ion channels. In this paper, we simulate two neighboring ion channels on a cell membrane with the famous double-slit experiment in physics to investigate whether there is any possibility of matter-wave interference of ions via movement through ion channels. Our obtained decoherence timescales indicate that the quantum states of ions can only survive for short times, i.e. ≈100 picoseconds in each channel and ≈17-53 picoseconds outside the channels, giving the result that the quantum interference of ions seems unlikely due to environmental decoherence. However, we discuss our results and raise few points, which increase the possibility of interference.
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