Distribution of entanglement in light-harvesting complexes and their quantum efficiency
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Quantum entanglement in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes
Light-harvesting components of photosynthetic organisms are complex, coupled, many-body quantum systems, in which electronic coherence has recently been shown to survive for relatively long timescales, despite the decohering effects of their environments. Here, we analyse entanglement in multichromophoric light-harvesting complexes, and establish methods for quantification of entanglement by de...
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عنوان ژورنال: New Journal of Physics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/085006