Technical Articles on Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis

• Bacteria fossils hold the oldest signs of machinery needed for photosynthesis - January, 2024
• Some leaves in tropical forests may be getting too hot for photosynthesis - August, 2023
• Bacteria know how to exploit quantum mechanics - March, 2021
• Do photosynthetic complexes use quantum coherence to increase their efficiency? - March, 2021
• Thin-film solar cells make champion harvesters of ambient light - August, 2020
• Cavity-modified exciton dynamics in photosynthetic units - June, 2019
• Production of Entanglement Entropy by Decoherence in Biological Systems - February, 2017
• X-ray laser spots photosynthesis in real-life conditions - November, 2016
• Optical signatures of quantum delocalization over extended domains in photosynthetic membranes - May, 2015
• Impact of environmentally induced fluctuations on quantum mechanically mixed electronic and vibrational pigment states in photosynthetic energy transfer and 2D electronic spectra - May, 2015
• Dynamics and quantumness of excitation energy transfer through a complex quantum network - May, 2015
• Superradiance Transition and Nonphotochemical Quenching in Photosynthetic Complexes - April, 2015
• Quantum delocalization directs antenna absorption to photosynthetic reaction centers - April, 2015
• A Theoretical Investigation Into Energy Transfer In Photosynthetic Open Quantum Systems - March, 2015
• Efficiency of energy funneling in the photosystem II supercomplex of higher plants - February, 2015
• Verification of the vibronic origin of long-lived coherence in an artificial molecular light harvester - February, 2015
• Adiabatic freezing of long-range quantum correlations in spin chains - February, 2015
• Full quantum dynamics of the electronic coupling between photosynthetic pigments - February, 2015
• Quantum correlation dynamics in photosynthetic processes assisted by molecular vibrations - January, 2015
• Enhancing light-harvesting power with coherent vibrational interactions: a quantum heat engine picture - December, 2014
• Possible Role of Interference and Sink Effects in Nonphotochemical Quenching in Photosynthetic Complexes - December, 2014
• Delocalized Quantum States Enhance Photocell Efficiency - November, 2014
• Green light for clever algae - September, 2014
• Can Natural Sunlight Induce Coherent Exciton Dynamics? - August, 2014
• Ab initio geometry and bright excitation of carotenoids: Quantum Monte Carlo and Many Body Green's Function Theory calculations on peridinin - April, 2014
• Motion-enhanced quantum entanglement in the dynamics of excitation transfer - April, 2014
• Quantum Entanglement and Decoherence: Beyond Particle Models. A Farewell to Quantum Mechanics's Weirdness - April, 2014
• Theoretical Limits of Photovoltaics Efficiency and Possible Improvements by Intuitive Approaches Learned from Photosynthesis and Quantum Coherence - February, 2014
• Observation of entanglement propagation in a quantum many-body system - January, 2014
• Excitation transfer pathways in excitonic aggregates revealed by the stochastic Schrodinger equation - January, 2014
• Opto-mechanical micro-macro entanglement - January, 2014
• Macroscopic optomechanics from displaced single-photon entanglement - January, 2014
• Plant Power - December, 2013
• Exciton coupling induces vibronic hyperchromism in light-harvesting complexes - December, 2013
• Sharpening the focus in quantum photolithography - December, 2013
• Quantum waves at the heart of organic solar cells - December, 2013
• Entanglement propagation and typicality of measurements in the quantum Kac ring - December, 2013
• Entanglement strengthened by losing information - December, 2013
• Continuous variable entanglement swapping and its local certification: entangling distant mechanical modes - December, 2013
• Sharing Entanglement without Sending It - December, 2013
• Noise-induced quantum coherence in photosynthetic complexes with multiple energy transfer pathways - December, 2013
• Local operator partitioning of electronic energy for electronic energy transfer: An efficient algorithm - November, 2013
• Transfer of Vibrational Coherence Through Incoherent Energy Transfer Process in Forster Limi - November, 2013
• The role of local and global geometry in quantum entanglement percolation - November, 2013
• Distant artificial atoms cooperate by sharing light - November, 2013
• Modelling excitonic-energy transfer in light-harvesting complexes - October, 2013
• Quantum measurement and thermally assisted proton tunnelling - October, 2013
• Vibronic phenomena and exciton-vibrational interference in two-dimensional spectra of molecular aggregates - October, 2013
• Observation of Coherence in the Photosystem II Reaction Center - October, 2013
• Quantum entanglement only dependent upon area - September, 2013
• Quantum interference of a single spin excitation with a macroscopic atomic ensemble - September, 2013
• Origin of long-lived oscillations in 2D-spectra of a Quantum Vibronic Model: Electronic vs Vibrational coherence - September, 2013
• Approaches to measuring entanglement in chemical magnetometers - August, 2013
• The Effect of Structural Conformational Changes on Charge Transfer States in a Light-Harvesting Carotenoid-diaryl-Porphyrin-C60 Molecular Triad - August, 2013
• Clustered Geometries Exploiting Quantum Coherence Effects for Efficient Energy Transfer in Light Harvesting - July, 2013
• Realistic and verifiable coherent control of excitonic states in a light harvesting complex - July, 2013
• Energetics and efficiency of a molecular motor model - July, 2013
• Temperature and Carbon Assimilation Regulate the Chlorosome Biogenesis in Green Sulfur Bacteria - July, 2013
• Atomistic study of energy funneling in the light-harvesting complex of green sulfur bacteria - July, 2013
• Vibration-assisted resonance in photosynthetic excitation energy transfer - June, 2013
• Orbital angular momentum entanglement in turbulence - June, 2013
• Quantum information in low light: New photo-detection scheme makes do with few photons - June, 2013
• Role of Energy-Level Mismatches in a Multi-Pathway Complex of Photosynthesis - February, 2013
• The role of non-equilibrium vibrational structures in electronic coherence and recoherence in pigment-protein complexes - January, 2013
• Does coherence enhance transport in photosynthesis? - October, 2012
• Complex quantum network model of energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes - August, 2012
• Excitonic energy transfer in light-harvesting complexes in purple bacteria - July, 2012
• Quantum transport in quantum networks and photosynthetic complexes at the steady state - June, 2012
• Functional quantum biology in photosynthesis and magnetoreception - May, 2012
• Entanglement between macroscopic objects generated by dissipation - August, 2011
• Quantum correlations -- without entanglement - August, 2011
• Quantum entanglement between electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom in molecules - July, 2011
• Consistent treatment of coherent and incoherent energy transfer dynamics using a variational master equation - July, 2011
• The Physical Basis for Long-lived Electronic Coherence in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Systems - July, 2011.
• An efficient method to calculate excitation energy transfer in light harvesting systems. Application to the FMO complex - June, 2011.
• Microscopic origin of the long-lived quantum coherences in the Fenna-Matthew-Olson complex - April, 2011.
• On the Equivalence of Quantum and Classical Coherence in Electronic Energy Transfer - April, 2011.
• Optimal and robust energy transfer in light-harvesting complexes: (I) Efficient simulation of excitonic dynamics in the non-perturbative and non-Markovian regimes - March, 2011.
• Coherent open-loop optimal control of light-harvesting dynamics - March, 2011.
• Coherent excitation transferring via dark state in light-harvesting process - February, 2011
• Distribution of Entanglement in light-harvesting complexes and their quantum efficiency - March, 2010.
• Exciton Dynamics in Photosynthetic Complexes: Excitation by Coherent and Incoherent Light - February, 2010.
• Long-lived Quantum Coherence in Photosynthetic Complexes at Physiological Temperature - January, 2010.
• Entanglement and Entangling Power of the Dynamics in Light-harvesting Complexes - December, 2009
• Thermodynamic Work Gain from Entanglement - July, 2012