Cell motility as an entangled quantum coherence.

Cell motility underlying muscle contraction is imputed to a macroscopic quantum mechanical coherence actualized locally in the body of a biological organism. Actin-activated myosin ATPase activity functions as a heat sink operating effectively at an extremely low temperature. Extraction of heat energy from the actin filament can help condensing the atomic degrees of freedom constituting the filament into a macroscopic quantum state carrying a nonvanishing linear momentum. Sliding movement of an actin filament on myosin molecules while hydrolyzing ATP molecules is a consequence of the quantum mechanical coherence due to an extremely slow release of energy stored in an ATP molecule.

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