Nonequilibrium boundary-driven quantum systems: Models, methods, and properties

GT Landi, D Poletti, G Schaller - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the theoretical understanding of quantum
systems driven dissipatively by coupling to different baths at their edges. This was possible …

Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting

GD Scholes, GR Fleming, A Olaya-Castro… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Solar fuel production often starts with the energy from light being absorbed by an assembly
of molecules; this electronic excitation is subsequently transferred to a suitable acceptor. 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 impinging solar photons is transformed
into electronic excitation energy of the light-harvesting biomolecular complexes. The …

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 …

The role of non-equilibrium vibrational structures in electronic coherence and recoherence in pigment–protein complexes

AW Chin, J Prior, R Rosenbach, F Caycedo-Soler… - Nature Physics, 2013 - nature.com
Recent observations of oscillatory features in the optical response of photosynthetic
complexes have revealed evidence for surprisingly long-lasting electronic coherences …

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 …

Quantum discord and its allies: a review of recent progress

A Bera, T Das, D Sadhukhan, SS Roy… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We review concepts and methods associated with quantum discord and related topics. We
also describe their possible connections with other aspects of quantum information and …

Environment-assisted quantum walks in photosynthetic energy transfer

M Mohseni, P Rebentrost, S Lloyd… - The Journal of chemical …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Energy transfer within photosynthetic systems can display quantum effects such as
delocalized excitonic transport. Recently, direct evidence of long-lived coherence has been …

Open quantum system dynamics and the mean force Gibbs state

AS Trushechkin, M Merkli, JD Cresser… - AVS Quantum Science, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamical convergence of a system to the thermal distribution, or Gibbs state, is a
standard assumption across all of the physical sciences. The Gibbs state is determined just …

Environment-assisted quantum transport

P Rebentrost, M Mohseni, I Kassal, S Lloyd… - New Journal of …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Transport phenomena at the nanoscale are of interest due to the presence of both quantum
and classical behavior. In this work, we demonstrate that quantum transport efficiency can …