Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems

GD Scholes, GR Fleming, LX Chen, A Aspuru-Guzik… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Coherence phenomena arise from interference, or the addition, of wave-like amplitudes with
fixed phase differences. Although coherence has been shown to yield transformative ways …

Photosynthetic light harvesting: excitons and coherence

F Fassioli, R Dinshaw, PC Arpin… - Journal of The Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Photosynthesis begins with light harvesting, where specialized pigment–protein complexes
transform sunlight into electronic excitations delivered to reaction centres to initiate charge …

Essential entanglement for atomic and molecular physics

MC Tichy, F Mintert, A Buchleitner - Journal of Physics B: Atomic …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Entanglement is nowadays considered as a key quantity for the understanding of
correlations, transport properties and phase transitions in composite quantum systems, and …

Solar light harvesting by energy transfer: from ecology to coherence

GD Scholes, T Mirkovic, DB Turner, F Fassioli… - Energy & …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Over billions of years, evolutionary pressure has facilitated the development of sophisticated
and diverse light-harvesting systems in photosynthetic organisms, enabling them to adapt to …

Trapped ions in optical lattices for probing oscillator chain models

T Pruttivarasin, M Ramm, I Talukdar… - New Journal of …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that a chain of trapped ions embedded in microtraps generated by an optical
lattice can be used to study oscillator models related to dry friction and energy transport …

Optimally designed quantum transport across disordered networks

M Walschaers, JFC Diaz, R Mulet, A Buchleitner - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We establish a general mechanism for highly efficient quantum transport through finite,
disordered 3D networks. It relies on the interplay of disorder with centrosymmetry and a …

Quantum transport on disordered and noisy networks: an interplay of structural complexity and uncertainty

M Walschaers, F Schlawin, T Wellens… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
We discuss recent research on quantum transport in complex materials, from photosynthetic
light-harvesting complexes to photonic circuits. We identify finite, disordered networks as the …

Entanglement and interference of identical particles

MC Tichy - Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen …, 2013 - inis.iaea.org
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Centrosymmetry enhances quantum transport in disordered molecular networks

T Zech, R Mulet, T Wellens… - New Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
For more than 50 years we have known that photosynthetic systems harvest solar energy
with almost unit quantum efficiency. However, recent experimental evidence of quantum …

The optimization topography of exciton transport

T Scholak, T Wellens, A Buchleitner - Europhysics Letters, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Stunningly large exciton transfer rates in the light harvesting complex of photosynthesis,
together with recent experimental 2D spectroscopic data, have spurred a vivid debate on the …