Long-lived quantum coherence in photosynthetic complexes at physiological temperature

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 12766-12770

  Panitchayangkoon, Gitt ^a   Hayes, Dugan ^a   Fransted, Kelly A ^a   Caram, Justin R ^a   Harel, Elad ^a   Wen, Jianzhong ^b   Blankenship, Robert E ^b   Engel, Gregory S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysics; Photosynthesis; Quantum beating; Quantum biology; Ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHROMATOPHORE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955648343     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005484107     Document Type: Article

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