Vibration-induced coherence enhancement of the performance of a biological quantum heat engine

Physical Review E

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Chen, Hong Bin ^a   Chiu, Pin Yi ^a   Chen, Yueh Nan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR THEORETICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMOACOUSTICS;

COHERENCE ENHANCEMENT; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS PROCESS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM HEAT ENGINES; RESEARCH INTERESTS;

HEAT ENGINES;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEAT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTUM THEORY; VIBRATION;

HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTUM THEORY; VIBRATION;

EID: 84994613817     PISSN: 24700045     EISSN: 24700053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.94.052101     Document Type: Article

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