Colloquium: Quantum coherence as a resource

A Streltsov, G Adesso, MB Plenio - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
The coherent superposition of states, in combination with the quantization of observables,
represents one of the most fundamental features that mark the departure of quantum …

Control of quantum phenomena: past, present and future

C Brif, R Chakrabarti, H Rabitz - New Journal of Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes
on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field …

Vibrations, quanta and biology

SF Huelga, MB Plenio - Contemporary Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Quantum biology is an emerging field of research that concerns itself with the experimental
and theoretical exploration of non-trivial quantum phenomena in biological systems. In this …

Quantum computation of electronic transitions using a variational quantum eigensolver

RM Parrish, EG Hohenstein, PL McMahon… - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We develop an extension of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm—
multistate contracted VQE (MC-VQE)—that allows for the efficient computation of the …

Quantum stochastic processes and quantum non-Markovian phenomena

S Milz, K Modi - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
The field of classical stochastic processes forms a major branch of mathematics. Stochastic
processes are, of course, also very well studied in biology, chemistry, ecology, geology …

Photovoltaic concepts inspired by coherence effects in photosynthetic systems

JL Brédas, EH Sargent, GD Scholes - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The past decade has seen rapid advances in our understanding of how coherent and
vibronic phenomena in biological photosynthetic systems aid in the efficient transport of …

Delocalized excitons in natural light-harvesting complexes

SJ Jang, B Mennucci - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
Natural organisms such as photosynthetic bacteria, algae, and plants employ complex
molecular machinery to convert solar energy into biochemical fuel. An important common …

[BOOK][B] Quantum effects in biology

M Mohseni, Y Omar, GS Engel, MB Plenio - 2014 - books.google.com
Quantum mechanics provides the most accurate microscopic description of the world around
us, yet the interface between quantum mechanics and biology is only now being explored …

Quantum computing at the frontiers of biological sciences

PS Emani, J Warrell, A Anticevic, S Bekiranov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Computing plays a critical role in the biological sciences but faces increasing challenges of
scale and complexity. Quantum computing, a computational paradigm exploiting the unique …

A quantitative theory of coherent delocalization

F Levi, F Mintert - New Journal of Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We define a quantitative measure of coherent delocalization; similarly to the concept of
entanglement measures, we require that a measure of coherent delocalization may never …