Quantum biology revisited
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 natu...
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| author | Cao, Jianshu Cogdell, Richard J. Coker, David F. Duan, Hong-Guang Hauer, Jürgen Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich Jansen, Thomas L. C. Mančal, Tomáš Miller, R. J. Dwayne Ogilvie, Jennifer P. Prokhorenko, Valentyn I. Renger, Thomas Tan, Howe-Siang Tempelaar, Roel Thorwart, Michael Thyrhaug, Erling Westenhoff, Sebastian Zigmantas, Donatas |
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| description | 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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| spelling | ntu-10356/1454102023-02-28T19:26:23Z Quantum biology revisited Cao, Jianshu Cogdell, Richard J. Coker, David F. Duan, Hong-Guang Hauer, Jürgen Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich Jansen, Thomas L. C. Mančal, Tomáš Miller, R. J. Dwayne Ogilvie, Jennifer P. Prokhorenko, Valentyn I. Renger, Thomas Tan, Howe-Siang Tempelaar, Roel Thorwart, Michael Thyrhaug, Erling Westenhoff, Sebastian Zigmantas, Donatas School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Science::Biological sciences Energy Transfer Quantum Chemistry 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. Ministry of Education (MOE) Published version D.F.C. acknowledges the support of U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant CHE-1665367. D.Z. acknowledges support from the Swedish Research Council. H.-G.D. acknowledges financial support by the Joachim-Herz-Stiftung Hamburg within a PIER fellowship. The work of H.-G.D. and R.J.D.M. was supported by the Max Planck Society. Moreover, H.-G.D., M.T., and R.J.D.M. were supported by the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - EXC 2056 - project ID 390715994. H.-S.T. acknowledges support from the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (Tier 2 MOE2015-T2-1-039). U.K. is grateful for a Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship for a research stay at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. J.C. acknowledges funding through NSF CHE 1836913 and NSF CHE 1800301. J.H. acknowledges funding by the DFG (German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy EXC 2089/1390776260. J.P.O. acknowledges support from the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, the U.S. Department of Energy under grant number DE-SC0016384, and the NSF under grant number PHY-1607570. R.J.C. gratefully acknowledges support from the Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under award number DE-SC 0001035. S.W. and D.Z. acknowledge support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. T.M. is supported by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) grant 17-22160S. 2020-12-21T05:31:47Z 2020-12-21T05:31:47Z 2020 Journal Article Cao, J., Cogdell, R. J., Coker, D. F., Duan, H.-G., Hauer, J., Kleinekathöfer, U., . . . Zigmantas, D. (2020). Quantum biology revisited. Science Advances, 6(14), eaaz4888-. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaz4888 2375-2548 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145410 10.1126/sciadv.aaz4888 32284982 14 6 en MOE2015-T2-1-039 Science Advances © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Science::Biological sciences Energy Transfer Quantum Chemistry Cao, Jianshu Cogdell, Richard J. Coker, David F. Duan, Hong-Guang Hauer, Jürgen Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich Jansen, Thomas L. C. Mančal, Tomáš Miller, R. J. Dwayne Ogilvie, Jennifer P. Prokhorenko, Valentyn I. Renger, Thomas Tan, Howe-Siang Tempelaar, Roel Thorwart, Michael Thyrhaug, Erling Westenhoff, Sebastian Zigmantas, Donatas Quantum biology revisited |
| title | Quantum biology revisited |
| title_full | Quantum biology revisited |
| title_fullStr | Quantum biology revisited |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quantum biology revisited |
| title_short | Quantum biology revisited |
| title_sort | quantum biology revisited |
| topic | Science::Biological sciences Energy Transfer Quantum Chemistry |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145410 |
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