Condensed concepts

Rudolph Marcus died last week. He was 102. There is a nice obituary in The New York Times . He was best known for his theory of electron tra...

Life is truly amazing! Life is beautiful! ...and it involves quantum many-body physics... There is a beautiful (short) review Heme: Fro...

At UQ there is a great  student physics club, PAIN . Today they are having a session on "crackpot" theories in science. Rather tha...

Beginning in 2007 luxury journals published some experimental papers making claims that quantum coherence was essential to photosynthesis. T...

The point here is a basic one. But, it is important to keep in mind. One might tend to think that in quantum many-body theory the hardest ...

There is a paper in Science Engineering Coherence Among Excited States in Synthetic Heterodimer Systems Dugan Hayes, Graham B. Griffin,...

In Telluride I heard David Coker give a fascinating talk about his recent work on quantum decoherence in photosynthetic proteins, reported ...

One should be careful about comparing apples and oranges! There is a helpful and interesting article in Science Comparing Photosynthetic a...

I had a nice visit this morning at University of Washington with Jim Mayer who has worked extensively on coupled electron-proton transfer [...

A 2007 paper in Science  Coherence Dynamics in Photosynthesis: Protein Protection of Excitonic Coherence by Lee, Cheng, and Fleming has att...

The graph below (taken from a paper  Environment assisted quantum transport  by  Patrick Rebentrost , Masoud Mohseni , Ivan Kassal , Seth Ll...

Here are my slides for the  UQ Physics Colloquium . I have tried to build it around 5 key ideas: 1. Truly quantum dynamics requires phase...

In a 2007 Nature paper Engel et al. reported the data below showing the amplitude of an optical signal versus time. The lower curve is th...

Single molecule spectroscopy has opened up a whole new vista on the photophysics and photochemistry of proteins whose functionality depends ...

This follows up on a previous post about measurements of the rate at which electron transfer occurs in a photosynthetic protein. I noted sev...

Understanding how photosynthetic systems convert photons into separated charge is of fundamental scientific interest and relevant to the des...

Shaul Mukamel has a helpful paper, Signatures of quasiparticle entanglement in multidimensional nonlinear optical spectroscopy of aggregate...

It actually has something to do with strong electronic correlations and the Jahn-Teller effect. Furthermore, it illustrates chemistry is ver...

New Journal of Physics has a Focus issue on Quantum Effects and Noise in Biomolecules. This includes a paper by myself and my former studen...

Accounts of Chemical Research just published a special issue on Artificial Photosynthesis and Solar Fuels . Articles I would particularly li...