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SYDC: Symposium Decoherence in the light of modern experiments

SYDC 2: Decoherence in the Light of Modern Experiments II

SYDC 2.4: Invited Talk

Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 18:00–18:30, E 415

Quantum coherence and decoherence in biological systems — •Martin Plenio — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany — QOLS, Blackett Lab, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, UK

Quantum dynamics is often subjected to uncontrollable interactions with the environment. These are generally assumed to have a detrimental effect but this is not always the cased. In this talk I will discuss the dynamics of dissipative and noisy quantum networks and will show how noise, both dephasing type and dissipative noise may actually improve the transport performance of the network. I will use the example of the FMO complex to elucidate the principles that govern the dynamics of such networks and use them to explain specific features of this dynamics.