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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 63: Quantum Effects: Entanglement and Decoherence III
Q 63.3: Talk
Friday, March 12, 2010, 14:45–15:00, A 310
Entanglement-enhanced energy transport — •Torsten Scholak1, Fernando de Melo1,2, Thomas Wellens1, Florian Mintert1, and Andreas Buchleitner1 — 1Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Str. 3, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany — 2Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium
In many areas of physics we witness dramatic differences between classical and quantum transport. In general, we expect quantum features to fade away on large scales, due to the ever more unavoidable – and detrimental – influence of the environment which scrambles relative phases and damps quantum amplitudes. Recent experimental evidence suggests, however, that the functional efficiency of large biomolecular units may stem from quantum coherence phenomena, despite strong environment coupling. We explain such efficiency, under the assumption that evolution is able to steer finite size three dimensional systems into molecular conformations with optimal coherent transport properties. It turns out that such optimal conformations are characterized by specific, optimal entanglement properties between different sites of the molecular complex.