Speaker
Prof.
Francesco Petruccione
(South African Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing and Communication, School of Chemistry and Physics - Quantum Research Group,University of KwaZulu-Natal - Westville Campus)
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Recently, non-trivial quantum phenomena have been observed in biological systems. Notably, long-lived coherences in photosynthetic complexes have been reported. The aim of the talk is to briefly review some of these effects and to show how quantum mechanics, and in particular the theory of open quantum systems, can be applied to the description of quantum effects in biological systems.
Primary author
Prof.
Francesco Petruccione
(South African Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing and Communication, School of Chemistry and Physics - Quantum Research Group,University of KwaZulu-Natal - Westville Campus)
