Quantum transport in biological functional units: Noise, disorder, structure

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Zech, T ^a   Walschaers, M ^b   Scholak, T ^c   Mulet, R ^d   Wellens, T ^a   Buchleitner, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA   (Cuba)

Author keywords

biomolecules; decoherence; quantum statistical methods; structure and physical properties; transport dynamics; Transport processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880181881     PISSN: 02194775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219477513400075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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