Witnessing quantum coherence: From solid-state to biological systems

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Li, Che Ming ^a,b   Lambert, Neill ^b   Chen, Yueh Nan ^a   Chen, Guang Yin ^a   Nori, Franco ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; QUANTUM THEORY;

LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84870784244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00885     Document Type: Article

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