- Abstract:
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One of the principal models of magnetic sensing in migratory birds rests on the quantum spin dynamics of transient radical pairs created photochemically in ocular cryptochrome proteins. We consider here the role of electron spin entanglement and coherence in determining the sensitivity of a radical pair-based geomagnetic compass and the origins of the directional response. It emerges that the anisotropy of radical pairs formed from spin-polarized molecular triplets could form the basis of a m...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- Physical review letters
- Volume:
- 109
- Issue:
- 22
- Pages:
- 220501
- Publication date:
- 2012-11-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1079-7114
- ISSN:
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0031-9007
- URN:
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uuid:798c98ed-4478-45d0-8f90-e38171553c3a
- Source identifiers:
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341355
- Local pid:
- pubs:341355
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright date:
- 2012
Journal article
Entanglement and sources of magnetic anisotropy in radical pair-based avian magnetoreceptors.
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