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 …

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 …

Quantum chemical studies of light harvesting

C Curutchet, B Mennucci - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The design of optimal light-harvesting (supra) molecular systems and materials is one of the
most challenging frontiers of science. Theoretical methods and computational models play a …

Environment-assisted quantum transport in a 10-qubit network

C Maier, T Brydges, P Jurcevic, N Trautmann… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
The way in which energy is transported through an interacting system governs fundamental
properties in nature such as thermal and electric conductivity or phase changes …

Exciton–vibrational coupling in the dynamics and spectroscopy of Frenkel excitons in molecular aggregates

M Schröter, SD Ivanov, J Schulze, SP Polyutov, Y Yan… - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
The influence of exciton–vibrational coupling on the optical and transport properties of
molecular aggregates is an old problem that gained renewed interest in recent years. On the …

Non-classicality of the molecular vibrations assisting exciton energy transfer at room temperature

EJ O'Reilly, A Olaya-Castro - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Advancing the debate on quantum effects in light-initiated reactions in biology requires clear
identification of non-classical features that these processes can exhibit and utilize. Here we …

Efficient quantum simulation of photosynthetic light harvesting

BX Wang, MJ Tao, Q Ai, T Xin, N Lambert… - NPJ Quantum …, 2018 - nature.com
Near-unity energy transfer efficiency has been widely observed in natural photosynthetic
complexes. This phenomenon has attracted broad interest from different fields, such as …

Vibronic origin of long-lived coherence in an artificial molecular light harvester

J Lim, D Paleček, F Caycedo-Soler, CN Lincoln… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Natural and artificial light-harvesting processes have recently gained new interest.
Signatures of long-lasting coherence in spectroscopic signals of biological systems have …

Studying light-harvesting models with superconducting circuits

A Potočnik, A Bargerbos, FAYN Schröder… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The process of photosynthesis, the main source of energy in the living world, converts
sunlight into chemical energy. The high efficiency of this process is believed to be enabled …

Efficient biologically inspired photocell enhanced by delocalized quantum states

C Creatore, MA Parker, S Emmott, AW Chin - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
Artificially implementing the biological light reactions responsible for the remarkably efficient
photon-to-charge conversion in photosynthetic complexes represents a new direction for the …