Could light harvesting complexes exhibit non-classical effects at room temperature?

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 466, Issue 2117, 2010, Pages 1347-1363

  Wilde, Mark M ^a   Mccracken, James M ^a   Mizel, Ari ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fenna Matthews Olson protein complex; Leggett Garg inequality; Macrorealism; Prosthecochloris aestuarii; Quantum effects in biological systems

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

CLASSICAL EFFECTS; CLASSICAL THEORY; DECOHERENCE; DECOHERENCE MODELS; LEGGETT-GARG INEQUALITY; LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEXES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PROTEIN COMPLEXES; QUANTUM EFFECTS; REACTION CENTRES; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

PROTEINS;

EID: 77952070208     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0575     Document Type: Article

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