A critical view on transport and entanglement in models of photosynthesis

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

Volumn 370, Issue 1972, 2012, Pages 3771-3786

  Tiersch, Markus ^a,b   Popescu, Sandu ^c   Briegel, Hans J ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entanglement; Photosynthesis; Quantum coherence

Indexed keywords

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

COHERENCE TIME; ENTANGLEMENT; LIGHT-HARVESTING; PIGMENT-PROTEIN COMPLEXES; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; STATE OF THE ART; TOY MODELS; TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84863642389     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0202     Document Type: Article

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