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Efficient and coherent excitation transfer across disordered molecular networks

Quantum Physics 2011-03-16 v3

Abstract

We show that finite-size, disordered molecular networks can mediate highly efficient, coherent excitation transfer which is robust against ambient dephasing and associated with strong multi-site entanglement. Such optimal, random molecular conformations may explain efficient energy transfer in the photosynthetic FMO complex.

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@article{arxiv.0912.3560,
  title  = {Efficient and coherent excitation transfer across disordered molecular networks},
  author = {Torsten Scholak and Fernando de Melo and Thomas Wellens and Florian Mintert and Andreas Buchleitner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.3560},
  year   = {2011}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures, revtex4-1