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ReviewEuropean physical journal plus2025

On the potential of microtubules for scalable quantum computation.

Nick E Mavromatos, Andreas Mershin, Dimitri V Nanopoulos

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Review in European physical journal plus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nick E MavromatosPhysics Division, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 157 80 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7683-8625
Andreas MershinMIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.
Dimitri V NanopoulosDivision of Natural Sciences, Academy of Athens, Athens, 10679 Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We examine the quantum coherence properties of tubulin heterodimers arranged into the protofilaments of cytoskeletal microtubules. In the physical model proposed by the authors, the microtubule interiors are treated as high-Q quantum electrodynamics (QED) cavities that can support decoherence-resistant entangled states under physiological conditions, with decoherence times of the order of

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PMID41281348
PMCPMC12630274

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