Noise-induced quantum coherence in photosynthetic complexes with multiple energy transfer pathways
Biological Physics
2014-08-14 v2 Biomolecules
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We theoretically investigate exciton relaxation dynamics in molecular aggregates based on model photosynthetic complexes under various conditions of incoherent excitation. We show that noise-induced quantum coherence is generated between spatially-separated exciton states which belong to the same or different energy transfer pathways, coupled via real and virtual transfer processes. Such quantum coherence effects may be used to improve light-harvesting efficiency and to reveal quantum phenomena in biology.
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@article{arxiv.1312.0862,
title = {Noise-induced quantum coherence in photosynthetic complexes with multiple energy transfer pathways},
author = {Dmitri V. Voronine and Konstantin E. Dorfman and Bin Cao and Amitabh Joshi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.0862},
year = {2014}
}
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needs major revision