Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems

Presentations

• Quantum Coherence in Biology

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 1, 2012, 11:15 AM – March 1, 2012, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Birgitta Whaley

    • Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    • University of California, Berkeley
    • UC Berkeley

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• Absence of quantum oscillations in electronic excitation transfer in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 11:51 AM – March 1, 2012, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Alexander Eisfeld

    • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
    • Harvard University

  • Gerhard Ritschel

    • Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Jan Roden

    • Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Walter Strunz

    • TU Dresden

  • Alan Aspuru-Guzik

    • Harvard University
    • Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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• Progress Towards Room-Temperature Electron Spin Detection in Biological Systems

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 12:03 PM – March 1, 2012, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Nicholas Chisholm

    • Harvard University

  • Igor Lovchinsky

    • Harvard University

  • Alex Sushkov

    • Harvard University

  • David Hunger

    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtat (LMU) Munich

  • Alexey Akimov

    • Lebedev Physics Institute

  • Peggy Lo

    • Harvard University

  • Amy Sutton

    • Harvard University

  • Jacob Robinson

    • Harvard University

  • Norman Yao

    • Harvard University

  • Steven Bennett

    • Harvard University

  • Hongkun Park

    • Harvard University

  • Mikhail Lukin

    • Harvard University

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• Coherent transfer in biological systems: a study of the role of environmental noise

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 12:15 PM – March 1, 2012, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Nayeli Zuniga-Hansen

    • Southern Illinois University Carbondale

  • Mark S. Byrd

    • Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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• Noise induced quantum effects in photosynthetic complexes

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 12:27 PM – March 1, 2012, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Konstantin Dorfman

    • Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas 77843

  • Dmitri Voronine

    • Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
    • Texas A\&M University, College Station, TX 77840
    • Texas A\&M University, College Station, TX 77843

  • Shaul Mukamel

    • University of California, Irvine, California 92697
    • University of California, Irvine

  • Marlan Scully

    • Texas A\&M University and Princeton University
    • Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
    • Texas A\&M and Princeton Universities

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• FMO complex: exciton transfer and interaction with vibronic modes

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 12:39 PM – March 1, 2012, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Lev Mourokh

    • Physics Department, Queens College of CUNY

  • Anatoly Smirnov

    • Frontier Research System, RIKEN, Japan and Physics Department, The University of Michigan

  • Franco Nori

    • Frontier Research System, RIKEN, Japan and Physics Department, The University of Michigan
    • RIKEN and the University of Michigan

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• Non-Markovian harmonic bath model for molecular systems: Influence of the bath spectral density

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 12:51 PM – March 1, 2012, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Jan Roden

    • Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

  • Alexander Eisfeld

    • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
    • Harvard University

  • Birgitta Whaley

    • Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    • University of California, Berkeley
    • UC Berkeley

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• Curvature, torsion and temperature in energy transfer

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 1:03 PM – March 1, 2012, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Yasser Omar

    • ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon \& Instituto de Telecomunicacoes

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• Quantum Process Tomography for Energy Transfer Systems via Ultrafast Spectroscopy

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 1:15 PM – March 1, 2012, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Joel Yuen-Zhou

    • Harvard University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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• Coherent vs. dissipative nonequilibrium dynamics in spectroscopy of molecular aggregates

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 1:27 PM – March 1, 2012, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Darius Abramavicius

    • Physics Faculty, Vilnius University, Sauletekio al. 9, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Andrius Gelzinis

    • Physics Faculty, Vilnius University, Sauletekio al. 9, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Vytautas Butkus

    • Physics Faculty, Vilnius University, Sauletekio al. 9, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Leonas Valkunas

    • Physics Faculty, Vilnius University, Sauletekio al. 9, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania

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• New quantum state of protons and electrons in nano-confined water

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 1:39 PM – March 1, 2012, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • George Reiter

    • University of Houston

  • Alexander Kolesnikov

    • ORNL

  • Stephen Paddison

    • University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Jerry Mayers

    • ISIS

  • Phil Platzman

    • University of Houston

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• Spectroscopic Characterization of the Water Oxidation Intermediates in the Blue Dimer Ru-Based Catalyst for Artificial Photosynthesis

  ORAL

  March 1, 2012, 1:51 PM – March 1, 2012, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Dooshaye Moonshiram

    • Purdue University

  • Yulia Pushkar

    • Purdue University

  • Jonah Jurss

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Javier Concepcion

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Thomas Meyer

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Taisiya Zakharova

    • Purdue University

  • Igor Alperovich

    • Purdue University

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