Vibrations, Quanta and Biology

Abstract

Quantum biology is an emerging field of research that concerns itself with the experimental and theoretical exploration of non-trivial quantum phenomena in biological systems. In this tutorial overview we aim to bring out fundamental assumptions and questions in the field, identify basic design principles and develop a key underlying theme -- the dynamics of quantum dynamical networks in the presence of an environment and the fruitful interplay that the two may enter. At the hand of three biological phenomena whose understanding is held to require quantum mechanical processes, namely excitation and charge transfer in photosynthetic complexes, magneto-reception in birds and the olfactory sense, we demonstrate that this underlying theme encompasses them all, thus suggesting its wider relevance as an archetypical framework for quantum biology.

27 pages, 13 figures

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• Highly efficient energy excitation transfer in light-harvesting complexes: The fundamental role of noise-assisted transport
• Efficiency of energy transfer in a light-harvesting system under quantum coherence
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• Coherent and incoherent dynamics in excitonic energy transfer: correlated fluctuations and off-resonance effects
• Noise-enhanced classical and quantum capacities in communication networks
• Quantum coherence and sensitivity of avian magnetoreception
• Realistic and verifiable coherent control of excitonic states in a light harvesting complex
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Cited by in corpus (276)

• Quantifying Coherence
• Quantum Coherence as a Resource
• Measuring Quantum Coherence with Entanglement
• Robustness of coherence: An operational and observable measure of quantum coherence
• Extraordinary exciton conductance induced by strong coupling
• Frozen Quantum Coherence
• Nature does not rely on long-lived electronic quantum coherence for photosynthetic energy transfer
• IBM Q Experience as a versatile experimental testbed for simulating open quantum systems
• Robustness of asymmetry and coherence of quantum states
• Relating the Resource Theories of Entanglement and Quantum Coherence
• The Fidelity and Trace Norm Distances for Quantifying Coherence
• Assisted distillation of quantum coherence
• Non-perturbative treatment of non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems
• Quantum Coherence via Skew Information and Its Polygamy
• Nonequilibrium thermodynamics in the strong coupling and non-Markovian regime based on a reaction coordinate mapping
• Alternative framework for quantifying coherence
• Efficient simulation of finite-temperature open quantum systems
• Environment-assisted quantum transport in a 10-qubit network
• Quantum thermal absorption machines: refrigerators, engines and clocks
• Vibronic origin of long-lived coherence in an artificial molecular light harvester
• Maximally coherent mixed states: Complementarity between maximal coherence and mixedness
• Non-Local Advantage of Quantum Coherence
• Ramsey interference with single photons
• Entanglement and coherence in quantum state merging
• Genuine quantum coherence
• Quantum processes which do not use coherence
• Origin of long-lived oscillations in 2D-spectra of a Quantum Vibronic Model: Electronic vs Vibrational coherence
• Measure-Independent Freezing of Quantum Coherence
• Open quantum system dynamics and the mean force Gibbs state
• Enhancing quantum transport in a photonic network using controllable decoherence
• Quantum Heat Current under Non-perturbative and Non-Markovian Conditions: Applications to Heat Machines
• Quantum Coherence Sets The Quantum Speed Limit For Mixed States
• Studying Light-Harvesting Models with Superconducting Circuits
• Non-additive dissipation in open quantum networks out of equilibrium
• Multi-Layer Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH) Approach to the Correlated Exciton-Vibrational Dynamics in the FMO Complex
• Geometric lower bound for a quantum coherence measure
• Impact of environmentally induced fluctuations on quantum mechanically mixed electronic and vibrational pigment states in photosynthetic energy transfer and 2D electronic spectra
• Nonequilibrium Energy Transfer at Nanoscale: A Unified Theory from Weak to Strong Coupling
• Probing the strongly driven spin-boson model in a superconducting quantum circuit
• Bloch-Redfield equations for modeling light-harvesting complexes
• Optimized auxiliary oscillators for the simulation of general open quantum systems
• Towards resource theory of coherence in distributed scenarios
• Steady-state coherences by composite system-bath interactions
• Quantum Computing for Molecular Biology
• Using and reusing coherence to realize quantum processes
• When is a non-Markovian quantum process classical?
• Efficient simulation of non-Markovian system-environment interaction
• Certification and Quantification of Multilevel Quantum Coherence
• Dissipation-assisted matrix product factorization
• Realising a quantum absorption refrigerator with an atom-cavity system
• Experimental progress on quantum coherence: detection, quantification, and manipulation
• The sensitivity of a radical pair compass magnetoreceptor can be significantly amplified by radical scavengers
• An operational approach to quantum stochastic thermodynamics
• Energy backflow and non-Markovian dynamics
• Coherence and non-classicality of quantum Markov processes
• Finite-temperature time-dependent variation with multiple Davydov states
• A cyanine dye rotaxane porphyrin nanoring complex as a model light harvesting system
• Average coherence and its typicality for random pure states
• Simulating Bosonic Baths with Error Bars
• Driven dissipative dynamics and topology of quantum impurity systems
• Digital quantum simulation of many-body non-Markovian dynamics
• Complex quantum networks as structured environments: engineering and probing
• Universally Optimal Noisy Quantum Walks on Complex Networks
• Noise-assisted digital quantum simulation of open systems
• Quantum Brownian Motion for Magnets
• Experimentally Obtaining Maximal Coherence Via Assisted Distillation Pro cess
• A new coherence measure based on fidelity
• Explicit Correlated Exciton-Vibrational Dynamics of the FMO Complex
• Journeys from Quantum Optics to Quantum Technology
• Uncertainty Relations for Quantum Coherence
• Optimizing co-operative multi-environment dynamics in a dark-state-enhanced photosynthetic heat engine
• Coherence orders, decoherence and quantum metrology
• Estimation on geometric measure of quantum coherence
• Quantum coherence and state conversion: theory and experiment
• Hidden Vibronic and Excitonic Structure and Vibronic Coherence Transfer in the Bacterial Reaction Center
• Logarithmic coherence: Operational interpretation of ${\ell }_1$-norm coherence
• Temperature control in dissipative cavities by entangled dimers
• Quantum simulation of quantum channels in nuclear magnetic resonance
• Operational interpretation of coherence in quantum key distribution
• Facets of quantum information under non-Markovian evolution
• Exact Simulation of Pigment-Protein Complexes Unveils Vibronic Renormalization of Electronic Parameters in Ultrafast Spectroscopy
• Noise-assisted energy transport in electrical oscillator networks with off-diagonal dynamical disorder
• Dephasing-assisted transport in linear triple quantum dots
• Quantum Simulation of Dissipative Processes without Reservoir Engineering
• Dissipation as a resource for Quantum Reservoir Computing
• Two-Unitary Decomposition Algorithm and Open Quantum System Simulation
• Trapped-ion quantum simulation of excitation transport: disordered, noisy, and long-range connected quantum networks
• Design principles for long-range energy transfer at room temperature
• Non-Markovianity of Gaussian Channels
• Sensitivity and Entanglement in the Avian Chemical Compass
• Ordering states with coherence measures
• Thermal production, protection and heat exchange of quantum coherences
• Would quantum coherence be increased by curvature effect in de Sitter space?
• Emergent ultrafast phenomena in correlated oxides and heterostructures
• Experimental quantification of coherence of a tunable quantum detector
• The Wigner-Yanase information can increase under phase sensitive incoherent operations
• Phase-dependent exciton transport and energy harvesting from thermal environments
• Activation of entanglement from quantum coherence and superposition
• Quantum Simulation of Spin-Boson Models with Structured Bath
• Notes on modified trace distance measure of coherence
• Gaussian interferometric power as a measure of continuous variable non-Markovianity
• Capacity of non-Markovianity to boost the efficiency of molecular switches
• Seeking a quantum advantage with trapped-ion quantum simulations of condensed-phase chemical dynamics
• Geometric coherence and quantum state discrimination
• Thermodynamics from indistinguishability: mitigating and amplifying the effects of the bath
• The radical-pair mechanism as a paradigm for the emerging science of quantum biology
• Interplay of different environments in open quantum systems: Breakdown of the additive approximation
• Enhancing coherence of a state by stochastic strictly incoherent operations
• Quantum Optimal Control via Semi-Automatic Differentiation
• Coherence generating power of quantum dephasing processes
• Quantum coherence and distribution of N-partite bosonic fields in noninertial frame
• Heat flow reversals without reversing the arrow of time: the role of internal quantum coherences and correlations
• Efficient Quantum Algorithms for Simulating Lindblad Evolution
• The interplay between local and non-local master equations: exact and approximated dynamics
• Dynamical error bounds for continuum discretisation via Gauss quadrature rules, -- a Lieb-Robinson bound approach
• Control of Excitation Energy Transfer in Condensed Phase Molecular Systems by Floquet Engineering
• Transient Synchronisation and Quantum Coherence in a Bio-Inspired Vibronic Dimer
• On the theory of excitonic delocalization for robust vibronic dynamics in LH2
• Engineered dissipation to mitigate barren plateaus
• Basis-independent quantum coherence and its distribution under relativistic motion
• Effects of system-bath coupling on Photosynthetic heat engine: A polaron master equation approach
• Neuroreceptor Activation by Vibration-Assisted Tunneling
• Inhibiting decoherence of two-level atom in thermal bath by presence of boundaries
• Quantum coherence and speed limit in the mean-field Dicke model of superradiance
• Exponential improvement for quantum cooling through finite-memory effects
• Selfcomplementary quantum channels
• Average subentropy, coherence and entanglement of random mixed quantum states
• Quantum Phase Transitions in the Spin-Boson model: MonteCarlo Method vs Variational Approach a la Feynman
• Phase-space interference in extensive and non-extensive quantum heat engines
• Asymptotic Floquet states of a periodically driven spin-boson system in the nonperturbative coupling regime
• Of Local Operations and Physical Wires
• Switching the function of the quantum Otto cycle in non-Markovian dynamics: heat engine, heater and heat pump
• Quantifying quantum coherence based on the generalized $\alpha -z-$relative R$\acute{e}$nyi entropy
• Synchronisation phase as an indicator of persistent quantum correlations between subsystems
• Maximum Relative Entropy of Coherence for Quantum Channels
• Quantum coherence and correlation measures based on affinity
• The complementarity relations of quantum coherence in quantum information processing
• Transport of quantum excitations coupled to spatially extended nonlinear many-body systems
• Classical noise assists the flow of quantum energy by `momentum rejuvenation'
• Bringing quantum mechanics to life: from Schrödinger's cat to Schrödinger's microbe
• Simulating polaron biophysics with Rydberg atoms
• Quantum coherence, quantum Fisher information and teleportation in the Ising-Heisenberg spin chain model of a heterotrimetallic Fe-Mn-Cu coordination polymer with magnetic impurity
• Constrained geometric dynamics of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex: The role of correlated motion in reducing uncertainty in excitation energy transfer
• Scanning electron microscopy of cold gases
• Excitation dynamics in chain-mapped environments
• Probing coherent quantum thermodynamics using a trapped ion
• Quantification of Entanglement and Coherence with Purity Detection
• Towards high-temperature coherence-enhanced transport in few-atomic layers heterostructures
• Non-Markovianity Hierarchy of Gaussian Processes and Quantum Amplification
• Structure-Dynamics Relation in Physically-Plausible Multi-Chromophore Systems
• Atomic Quantum Technologies for Quantum Matter and Fundamental Physics Applications
• Coherent quantum dynamics launched by incoherent relaxation in a quantum circuit simulator of a light-harvesting complex
• Coherence generating power of unitary transformations via probabilistic average
• Quantum redirection of antenna absorption to photosynthetic reaction centres
• Superadditivity of convex roof coherence measures
• Quantum-state texture and gate identification
• Catalytic Transformations in Coherence Theory
• Quantum Phase Transition of Many Interacting Spins Coupled to a Bosonic Bath: static and dynamical properties
• Dynamics of coherence: Maximal quantum Fisher information vs. Loschmidt echo
• Resource Theory of Total Quantum Coherence
• Spin-boson model as a simulator of non-Markovian multiphoton Jaynes-Cummings models
• Probing the dynamic structure factor of a neutral Fermi superfluid along the BCS-BEC crossover using atomic impurity qubits
• Quantum correlations and speed limit of central spin system
• Quantum relative entropy shows singlet-triplet coherence is a resource in the radical-pair mechanism of biological magnetic sensing
• Unraveling excitation energy transfer assisted by collective behaviors of vibrations
• Retrodictive derivation of the radical-ion-pair master equation and Monte-Carlo simulation with single-molecule quantum trajectories
• Inequivalent Multipartite Coherence Classes and New Coherence Monotones
• Quantum coherence in mutually unbiased bases
• Experimental Control of the Degree of Non-Classicality via Quantum Coherence
• Exact non-Markovian dynamics of Gaussian quantum channels: Finite-time and asymptotic regimes
• Signatures of spatially correlated noise and non-secular effects in two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy
• Conditional quantum nonlocality in dimeric and trimeric arrays of organic molecules
• Efficient quantum algorithm to simulate open systems through a single environmental qubit
• A counterintuitive role of geometry in transport by quantum walks
• Analog Quantum Simulation of Extremely Sub-Ohmic Spin-Boson Models
• Impact of non-Markovian evolution on characterizations of quantum thermodynamics
• Examining the validity of Schatten-$p$-norm-based functionals as coherence measures
• Multi-color quantum control for suppressing ground state coherences in two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy
• Noisy Quantum Cellular Automata for Quantum vs Classical Excitation Transfer
• Dynamics of quantum coherence in Bell-diagonal states under Markovian channels
• Transport enhancement from incoherent coupling between one-dimensional quantum conductors
• Quantifying dynamical coherence with coherence measures
• Quantum Speed Limit in Terms of Coherence Variations
• Maximal Steered Coherence in Accelerating Unruh-DeWitt Detectors
• Dynamics of coherence, localization and excitation transfer in disordered nanorings
• Tsallis relative $\alpha$ entropy of coherence dynamics in Grover's search algorithm
• Dynamics of coherence-induced state ordering under Markovian channels
• Evolution of a Non-Hermitian Quantum Single-Molecule Junction at Constant Temperature
• Coherent delocalization: Views of entanglement in different scenarios
• Converting coherence based on positive-operator-valued measures into entanglement
• Generation of Coherence via Gaussian Measurements
• Nonadiabatic Sunlight-harvesting
• Increasing the dimension of the maximal pure coherent subspace of a state via incoherent operations
• Thermal cycle and polaron formation in structured bosonic environments
• Diagnostics of quantum-gate coherences via end-point-measurement statistics
• On the functional window of the avian compass
• Estimating quantum coherence by noncommutativity of any observable and its incoherent part
• Quantum Predictive Filtering
• Cohering and decohering power of massive scalar fields under instantaneous interactions
• Common Coherence Witnesses and Common Coherent States
• Ordering states with various coherence measures
• Crossover from quantum to classical transport
• Unambiguous nuclear spin detection using engineered quantum sensing sequence
• Exclusion principle for nonlocal advantage of quantum coherence
• Quantum chaos in the Dicke model and its variants
• Influence of the coupled-dipoles on photosynthetic performance in a photosynthetic quantum heat engine
• Hierarchy of quantum operations in manipulating coherence and entanglement
• Quantum Information Processing in the Radical-Pair Mechanism: Haberkorn theory violates the Ozawa entropy bound
• Spatially-selective and quantum-statistics-limited light stimulus for retina biometrics and pupillometry
• Spin Resonance Spectroscopy with an Electron Microscope
• From Goldilocks to Twin Peaks: multiple optimal regimes for quantum transport in disordered networks
• Coherence measures induced by norm functions
• Coherence dynamics in quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations
• Lamb shift in radical-ion pairs produces a singlet-triplet energy splitting in photosynthetic reaction centers
• Physiological search for quantum biological effects based on the Wigner-Yanase connection between coherence and uncertainty
• Anisotropic signatures in the spin-boson model
• Facets of correlated non-Markovian channels
• The modified trace distance of coherence is constant on most pure states
• (Thermo-)dynamics of the spin-boson model in the weak coupling regime: Application as a quantum battery
• Ground State, Magnetization Process and Bipartite Quantum Entanglement of a Spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg Model on Planar Lattices of Interconnected Trigonal Bipyramids
• Monogamy and trade-off relations for correlated quantum coherence
• Localisation determines the optimal noise rate for quantum transport
• Witnessing quantum coherence with prior knowledge of observables
• An alternative framework for quantifying coherence of quantum channels
• Optimal Conditions for Environment-Assisted Quantum Transport on the Fully Connected Network
• Magnetic Dipolar Quantum Battery with Spin-Orbit Coupling
• Which-way interference within biomimetic unit-cells for efficient energy transfer
• Accelerating two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy simulations with a probe qubit protocol
• No-go theorems for deterministic purification and probabilistic enhancement of coherence
• Dissipation-Induced Mobility and Coherence in Frustrated Lattices
• Detecting coherence with respect to general quantum measurements
• All multipartite entanglements are quantum coherences in locally distinguishable bases
• Coherence and Imaginarity as Resources in Quantum Circuit Complexity
• Hierarchical Equations of Motion Approach to Quantum Thermodynamics
• Quantum Correlations and Coherence in a Moving Unruh-deWitt Detector
• Identifying possible mechanism for quantum needle in chemical magnetoreception
• Demonstration of system-bath physics on a gate-based quantum computer
• A simple model for exploring the role of quantum coherence and the environment in excitonic energy transfer
• Coherence and entanglement dynamics in Shor's algorithm
• Simulating and investigating various dynamic aspects of the ${\mathrm{H}}_2\mathrm{O}$-related hydrogen bond model
• Motion of an impurity in a two-leg ladder
• Non-Gaussian Dissipative Quantum Thermometry Beyond Gaussian Bounds
• Optimal quantum transport on a ring via locally monitored chiral quantum walks
• Interplay between external driving, dissipation and collective effects in the Markovian and non-Markovian regimes
• Strong superadditivity relations for multiqubit systems
• Tunable non-Markovian dynamics in a collision model: an application to coherent transport
• Survival probability of the Grover walk on the ladder graph
• Parameterized coherence measure
• Temporal witnesses of non-classicality in a macroscopic biological system
• A study of the quasi-probability distributions of the Tavis-Cummings model under different quantum channels
• Exciton propagation via quantum walks based on non-Hermitian coin flip operations
• The tightness of multipartite coherence from spectrum estimation
• Non-Gaussian Phase Transition and Cascade of Instabilities in the Dissipative Quantum Rabi Model
• A Fractional Calculus Framework for Open Quantum Dynamics: From Liouville to Lindblad to Memory Kernels
• Stronger superadditivity relations for multiqubit systems
• Quantum noise may limit the mechanosensory sensitivity of cilia in the left-right organizer of the vertebrate bodyplan
• Efficient excitation-transfer across fully connected networks via local-energy optimization
• Basis-independent Coherence in Noninertial Frames
• Coherence-induced quantum forces
• Remote Creation of Quantum Coherence via Indefinite Causal Order
• Chain-mapping methods for relativistic light-matter interactions
• The $n$-th decay rate of coherence for Bell-diagonal states under quantum channels
• Experimental demonstration of robustness of Gaussian quantum coherence
• Entanglement enhanced distinguishability of coherence-breaking channels
• Quantum criticality in sub-Ohmic systems with three competing terms: beyond conventional spin-boson physics
• Time-Dependent Dephasing and Quantum Transport
• Open harmonic chain without secular approximation
• Process Tensor Approaches to Non-Markovian Quantum Dynamics
• Efficient simulation of a pair of dissipative qubits antiferromagnetically coupled
• Non-Markovianity-based ultrasensitive parameter estimation
• Coherence-mediated squeezing of cavity field coupled to a coherently driven single quantum dot
• Closed expressions for one-qubit states of convex roof coherence measures
• Optical signatures of coherence in molecular dimers
• Total quantum coherence and its applications
• Characterizing quantum ensemble using geometric measure of quantum coherence
• Classifying coherence with a finite set of witnesses