Thermodynamics originated in the need to understand novel technologies developed by the
Industrial Revolution. However, over the centuries, the description of engines, refrigerators …

The remarkable performance and quantum efficiency of biological light-harvesting
complexes has prompted a multidisciplinary interest in engineering biologically inspired …

Recent evidence suggests that quantum effects may have functional importance in
biological light-harvesting systems. Along with delocalized electronic excitations, it is now …

The question of how quantum coherence facilitates energy transfer has been intensively
debated in the scientific community. Since natural and artificial light-harvesting units operate …

Single atom heterogeneous catalysts, SAHCs, have been considered as one of the holy
grails in catalysis as they enable the best utilization of scarce and expensive catalytic noble …

We consider bioinspired ring systems as photovoltaic circuits to explore the advantage of
“optical ratcheting,” a process whereby the arrangement of coupled optical dipoles enables …

We analyze the role of coherent, non-perturbative system-bath interactions in a
photosynthetic heat engine. Using the reaction-coordinate formalism to describe the …

We demonstrate that it is possible to effectively eliminate radiative losses during excitonic
energy transport in systems with an intrinsic energy gradient. By considering chainlike …

Closed-form analytic solutions to non-secular Bloch-Redfield master equations for quantum
dynamics of a V-type system driven by weak coupling to a thermal bath, relevant to light …

Conventional photocells suffer a fundamental efficiency threshold imposed by the principle
of detailed balance, reflecting the fact that good absorbers must necessarily also be fast …