Condensed concepts

 Members of my family have been reading  Phosphorescence: On awe, wonder, and things that sustain you when the world goes dark , a personal ...

 Total I am giving a talk, "Effect of quantum nuclear motion on hydrogen bonds in complex molecular materials" at  Light-matter In...

This week I am giving two (virtual) talks at a meeting Light-matter Interactions from scratch: Theory and Experiments at the Border with Bio...

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...

It has dubious origins. Some people are very impressed that I have a Wikipedia page. I find this a bit embarrassing because there are man...

Bill Parson kindly gave me a copy of the new edition of his book, Modern Optical SpectroscopyWith Exercises and Examples from Biophysics an...

I am skeptical of the grand and speculative claims of "quantum biology".  There is a nice paper in PNAS which systematically cons...

There is a very nice article in the new journal, ACS Central Science Short Hydrogen Bonds and Proton Delocalization in Green Fluorescent Pr...

I have just finished a paper with Bijyalaxmi Athokpam and Sai  Ramesh, Isotopic fractionation in proteins as a measure of hydrogen bond len...

This post concerns what may be the fast known internal conversion process in a chemical system, non-radiative d ecay times in the range of ...

There is a nice helpful review Biochemistry and Theory of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer  Agostino Migliore, Nicholas F. Polizzi, Michae...

Last night I was stranded at Denver airport en route to the bi-annual Condensed phase dynamics meeting at the Telluride Science Research Ce...

There is an interesting JACS article Are There Really Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bonds in Proteins? The Case of Photoactive Yellow Protein Marc ...

I think double proton transfer can be pretty amazing. The picture below shows two possible quantum states of a porphycene molecule. Note tw...

Yesterday I read an interesting paper Enol Tautomers of Watson−Crick Base Pair Models Are Metastable Because of Nuclear Quantum Effects A...

Bill Miller has a very nice Perspective: Quantum or Classical coherence?  in the Journal of Chemical Physics. I thank him for explaining so...

Over the years I have moved into new established research areas with mixed success. Sometimes this has been a move from one sub-field of co...

There are a whole range of dynamical processes found in biomolecular systems that one would like to simulate and understand. Examples includ...