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 entanglement in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes

M Sarovar, A Ishizaki, GR Fleming, KB Whaley - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
Light-harvesting components of photosynthetic organisms are complex, coupled, many-body
quantum systems, in which electronic coherence has recently been shown to survive for …

Nature does not rely on long-lived electronic quantum coherence for photosynthetic energy transfer

HG Duan, VI Prokhorenko, RJ Cogdell… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
During the first steps of photosynthesis, the energy of im**ing solar photons is transformed
into electronic excitation energy of the light-harvesting biomolecular complexes. The …

Open quantum system dynamics from infinite tensor network contraction

V Link, HH Tu, WT Strunz - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Approaching the long-time dynamics of non-Markovian open quantum systems presents a
challenging task if the bath is strongly coupled. Recent proposals address this problem …

Non-Markovianity and reservoir memory of quantum channels: a quantum information theory perspective

B Bylicka, D Chruściński, S Maniscalco - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Quantum technologies rely on the ability to coherently transfer information encoded in
quantum states along quantum channels. Decoherence induced by the environment sets …

Efficient simulation of strong system-environment interactions

J Prior, AW Chin, SF Huelga, MB Plenio - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
Multicomponent quantum systems in strong interaction with their environment are receiving
increasing attention due to their importance in a variety of contexts, ranging from solid state …

Environment-assisted quantum transport in a 10-qubit network

C Maier, T Brydges, P Jurcevic, N Trautmann… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
The way in which energy is transported through an interacting system governs fundamental
properties in nature such as thermal and electric conductivity or phase changes …

[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 channels and memory effects

F Caruso, V Giovannetti, C Lupo, S Mancini - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
Any physical process can be represented as a quantum channel map** an initial state to a
final state. Hence it can be characterized from the point of view of communication theory, ie …