Coherence and decoherence in biological systems: Principles of noise-assisted transport and the origin of long-lived coherences

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

Volumn 370, Issue 1972, 2012, Pages 3638-3657

  Chin, A W ^a   Huelga, S F ^a   Plenio, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biology; Long lived coherence; Noise assisted transport; Quantum physics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOLOGY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

DECOHERENCE; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX; NATURAL CONDITIONS; NOISE-ASSISTED TRANSPORT; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; OPTIMAL OPERATION; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM DYNAMICS; QUANTUM PHYSICS; TRANSPORT NETWORKS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

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

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

EID: 84863647203     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0224     Document Type: Article

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