Efficient Energy Transport in Photosynthesis: Roles of Coherence and Entanglement
arXiv:1104.1253 · doi:10.1063/1.3635850
Abstract
Recently it has been discovered---contrary to expectations of physicists as well as biologists---that the energy transport during photosynthesis, from the chlorophyll pigment that captures the photon to the reaction centre where glucose is synthesised from carbon dioxide and water, is highly coherent even at ambient temperature and in the cellular environment. This process and the key molecular ingredients that it depends on are described. By looking at the process from the computer science view-point, we can study what has been optimised and how. A spatial search algorithmic model based on robust features of wave dynamics is presented.
arXiv comment6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Symposium "75 Years of Quantum Entanglement: Foundations and Information Theoretic Applications", January 2011, Kolkata, India