Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems

GD Scholes, GR Fleming, LX Chen, A Aspuru-Guzik… - Nature, 2017‏ - nature.com
Coherence phenomena arise from interference, or the addition, of wave-like amplitudes with
fixed phase differences. Although coherence has been shown to yield transformative ways …

Exciton transport in molecular aggregates–from natural antennas to synthetic chromophore systems

T Brixner, R Hildner, J Köhler… - Advanced Energy …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
The transport of excitation energy in molecular aggregates is of crucial importance for the
function of organic optoelectronic devices and next‐generation solar cells. First, this review …

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 …

[ספר][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 …

Semiclassical path integral dynamics: Photosynthetic energy transfer with realistic environment interactions

MK Lee, P Huo, DF Coker - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent progress in the theoretical modeling of excitation energy transfer
(EET) processes in natural light harvesting complexes. The iterative partial linearized …

Coherence and decoherence in biological systems: principles of noise-assisted transport and the origin of long-lived coherences

AW Chin, SF Huelga, MB Plenio - … Transactions of the …, 2012‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The quantum dynamics of transport networks in the presence of noisy environments has
recently received renewed attention with the discovery of long-lived coherences in different …

Quantum coherences reveal excited-state dynamics in biophysical systems

L Wang, MA Allodi, GS Engel - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019‏ - nature.com
Ultrafast, multi-dimensional spectroscopic measurements of photosynthetic light-harvesting
complexes have revealed quantum coherences with timescales comparable to those of …

Applications of large-scale density functional theory in biology

DJ Cole, NDM Hine - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Density functional theory (DFT) has become a routine tool for the computation of electronic
structure in the physics, materials and chemistry fields. Yet the application of traditional DFT …

Multidimensional electronic spectroscopy of photochemical reactions

P Nuernberger, S Ruetzel… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Coherent multidimensional electronic spectroscopy can be employed to unravel various
channels in molecular chemical reactions. This approach is thus not limited to analysis of …

Conformation of self-assembled porphyrin dimers in liposome vesicles by phase-modulation 2D fluorescence spectroscopy

GA Lott, A Perdomo-Ortiz, JK Utterback… - Proceedings of the …, 2011‏ - pnas.org
By applying a phase-modulation fluorescence approach to 2D electronic spectroscopy, we
studied the conformation-dependent exciton coupling of a porphyrin dimer embedded in a …