Quantum coherence and sensitivity of avian magnetoreception

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Bandyopadhyay, Jayendra N ^a,b   Paterek, Tomasz ^a,c   Kaszlikowski, Dagomir ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE LIFETIME; BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENT; COHERENCE TIME; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; MIGRATORY BIRDS; MOLECULAR IONS; PARAMETER REGIMES; QUANTUM COHERENCE; RADICAL PAIR; UNPAIRED ELECTRONS;

BIOMAGNETISM; GEOMAGNETISM;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84866360580     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.110502     Document Type: Article

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