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  • Quantum Physics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Quantum Informatics

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  • DNA's complex, multiscale nature presents theoretical challenges.
  • Understanding DNA requires integrating chemistry, quantum physics, and quantum informatics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present theoretical results offering a refined description of DNA structure.
  • To elucidate DNA's operational processes in genetic information transmission, coding, and decoding.

Main Methods:

  • Explaining aromaticity via oscillatory resonant quantum states of electron-hole pairs.
  • Describing nitrogenous bases' supercurrent within a single band molecular orbital (π-MO).
  • Modeling hydrogen bonds (A-T, G-C) as ideal Josephson Junctions.

Main Results:

  • Correlated electron-hole pairs form a supercurrent in nitrogenous bases.
  • Hydrogen bonds function as Josephson Junctions, enabling quantum effects.
  • Nitrogenous bases condense into entangled quantum states forming qubits.

Conclusions:

  • DNA functions as a perfect quantum computer.
  • RNA polymerase teleports Bell states by combining quantum and classical information.
  • Theoretical insights enhance understanding of DNA's structure and quantum operations.