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Quantum biology revisited.
Review in Science advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers.
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- Bioinspired Dynamic Remodeling of Excited-State Pathways for High-Performance Stimuli-Responsive Materials.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- TENSO: Software Package for Numerically Exact Open Quantum Dynamics Based on Efficient Tree Tensor Network Decomposition of the Hierarchical Equations of Motion.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2026Article
- Excitonic energy transfer in red algal Photosystem I reveals an evolutionary bridge between cyanobacteria and plants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Protein-Solvent Interface Controls Proton-Coupled Reactivity in Cryptochrome 4a.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Multi-dimensional spatial-temporal projection ultrafast compressed imaging.Light, science & applications · 2026Article
- Characterizing open-ended evolution through undecidability mechanisms in random Boolean networks.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026Article
- Quantum Nanomedicine and Quantum Biomaterials.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
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- Quantum Life Science: A Paradigm for Life Science Research.ACS nano · 2026Review
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- An Open-Quantum-Systems Theory of Quantum-Biological Communication Channels.IEEE transactions on molecular, biological, and multi-scale communications · 2026Article
- Coherent-resonant netting: disorder-enhanced selectivity from transient wave-like dynamics on biological connectomes.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Self-referential processing as the biological switch between classical and quantum functioning of the brain.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
Photosynthesis is a highly optimized process from which valuable lessons can be learned about the operating principles in nature. Its primary steps involve energy transport operating near theoretical quantum limits in efficiency. Recently, extensive research was motivated by the hypothesis that nature used quantum coherences to direct energy transfer. This body of work, a cornerstone for the field of quantum biology, rests on the interpretation of small-amplitude oscillations in two-dimensional electronic spectra of photosynthetic complexes. This Review discusses recent work reexamining these claims and demonstrates that interexciton coherences are too short lived to have any functional significance in photosynthetic energy transfer. Instead, the observed long-lived coherences originate from impulsively excited vibrations, generally observed in femtosecond spectroscopy. These efforts, collectively, lead to a more detailed understanding of the quantum aspects of dissipation. Nature, rather than trying to avoid dissipation, exploits it via engineering of exciton-bath interaction to create efficient energy flow.
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