Quantum life
- Date: Jun 10, 2014
- Time: 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Professor Seth Lloyd, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall
- Host: MPQ
"Recent experimental investigations of excitonic transport in photosynthesis indicate that quantum coherence can play an important role in enhancing energy transport in photosynthetic complexes.This talk presents a general theory of optimizing energy transport in photosynthesis and in artificial systems.Optimal energy transport takes place at the point where the timescales for dynamic and static disorder converge, a phenomenon called the quantum Goldilocks effect."