Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) is a popular technique that can track
ultrafast coherent and incoherent processes in real time. Since its development in the late …

Over the past few decades, coherent broadband spectroscopy has been widely used to
improve our understanding of ultrafast processes (eg, photoinduced electron transfer, proton …

The crucial step in the conversion of solar to chemical energy in photosynthesis takes place
in the reaction centre, where the absorbed excitation energy is converted into a stable …

The primary questions motivating this report are: Are there ways to increase coherence and
delocalization of excitation among many molecules at moderate electronic coupling …

Ultrafast, multi-dimensional spectroscopic measurements of photosynthetic light-harvesting
complexes have revealed quantum coherences with timescales comparable to those of …

While the majority of the photochemical states and pathways related to the biological
capture of solar energy are now well understood and provide paradigms for artificial device …

Energy transfer and trapping in the light harvesting antennae of purple photosynthetic
bacteria is an ultrafast process, which occurs with a quantum efficiency close to unity …

Photosynthetic proteins have evolved over billions of years so as to undergo optimal energy
transfer to the sites of charge separation. On the basis of spectroscopically detected …

Answering the titular question has become a central motivation in the field of quantum
biology, ever since the idea was raised following a series of experiments demonstrating …

Femtosecond two-dimensional (2D) Fourier transform spectroscopy generates and probes
several types of coherence that characterize the couplings between vibrational and …