Quantum entanglement in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 462-467

  Sarovar, Mohan ^a,b   Ishizaki, Akihito ^b,c   Fleming, Graham R ^b,c   Whaley, K Birgitta ^a,b  

^a Berkeley Center for Quantum Information and Computation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; HARVESTING; PROTEINS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

BIPARTITE ENTANGLEMENT; LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEXES; MANY-BODY QUANTUM SYSTEMS; MULTIPARTITE ENTANGLEMENTS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS; PHYSIOLOGICAL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 77953134115     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1652     Document Type: Article

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