Coherence in Chemistry: Foundations and Frontiers

JD Schultz, JL Yuly, EA Arsenault, K Parker… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Coherence refers to correlations in waves. Because matter has a wave-particle nature, it is
unsurprising that coherence has deep connections with the most contemporary issues in …

The future of quantum biology

A Marais, B Adams, AK Ringsmuth… - Journal of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Biological systems are dynamical, constantly exchanging energy and matter with the
environment in order to maintain the non-equilibrium state synonymous with living …

Nature-inspired enhancement in power conversion efficiency of bio-photovoltaics using photosynthetic protein complexes

KK Chenab, MRZ Meymian, S Bagheri… - Materials Science in …, 2025 - Elsevier
Photosynthesis (PS) teaches us to manipulate power conversion efficiency (PCE) of bio-
photovoltaics (Bio-PVs). Over the past few years, Bio-PVs have struggled with low PCE …

A Symmetry‐Broken Charge‐Separated State in the Marcus Inverted Region

E Sebastian, M Hariharan - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We report a long‐lived charge‐separated state in a chromophoric pair (DC‐PDI2) that
uniquely integrates the advantages of fundamental processes of photosynthetic reaction …

Electronic state-resolved multimode-coupled vibrational wavepackets in oxazine 720 by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

R Zhu, J Zou, Z Wang, H Chen… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The difference between the excited-and ground-state vibrational wavepackets remains to be
fully explored when multiple vibrational modes are coherently excited simultaneously by …

[HTML][HTML] Consciousness and Energy Processing in Neural Systems

R Pepperell - Brain Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: Our understanding of the relationship between neural activity and
psychological states has advanced greatly in recent decades. But we are still unable to …

Photosynthetic energy transfer at the quantum/classical border

N Keren, Y Paltiel - Trends in plant science, 2018 - cell.com
Quantum mechanics diverges from the classical description of our world when very small
scales or very fast processes are involved. Unlike classical mechanics, quantum effects …

Ultrafast fs coherent excitonic dynamics in CdSe quantum dots assemblies addressed and probed by 2D electronic spectroscopy

E Collini, H Gattuso, RD Levine… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We show in a joint experimental and theoretical study that ultrafast femto-second (fs)
electronic coherences can be characterized in semi-conducting colloidal quantum dot (QD) …

Redox transients of P680 associated with the incremental chlorophyll‐a fluorescence yield rises elicited by a series of saturating flashes in diuron‐treated photosystem II core …

G Sipka, P Müller, K Brettel, M Magyar… - Physiologia …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent chlorophyll‐a fluorescence yield measurements, using single‐turnover saturating
flashes (STSFs), have revealed the involvement of a rate‐limiting step in the reactions …

A TDDFT investigation of the Photosystem II reaction center: Insights into the precursors to charge separation

MA Kavanagh, JKG Karlsson, JD Colburn… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Photosystem II (PS II) captures solar energy and directs charge separation (CS) across the
thylakoid membrane during photosynthesis. The highly oxidizing, charge-separated state …