Journal article
Temporal witnesses of non-classicality in a macroscopic biological system
- Abstract:
- Exciton transfer along a bio-polymer is essential for many biological processes, for instance, light harvesting in photosynthetic biosystems. Here we apply a new witness of non-classicality to this phenomenon, to conclude that, if an exciton can mediate the coherent quantum evolution of a photon, then the exciton is non-classical. We then propose a general qubit model for the quantum transfer of an exciton along a bio-polymer chain, also discussing the effects of environmental decoherence. The generality of our results makes them ideal candidates to design new tests of quantum features in complex bio-molecules.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1038/s41598-024-66159-x
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/006wxqw41
- Publisher:
- Nature Research
- Journal:
- Scientific Reports More from this journal
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 20094
- Publication date:
- 2024-08-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-06-27
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2045-2322
- Language:
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English
- Source identifiers:
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2223781
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2024-08-29
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