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Session W41: Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems

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Sponsoring Units: DBIO
Chair: Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley
Room: 156B


Thursday, March 1, 2012
11:15AM - 11:51AM

W41.00001: Quantum Coherence in Biology
Invited Speaker: Birgitta Whaley

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
11:51AM - 12:03PM

W41.00002: Absence of quantum oscillations in electronic excitation transfer in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex
Alexander Eisfeld , Gerhard Ritschel , Jan Roden , Walter Strunz , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
12:03PM - 12:15PM

W41.00003: Progress Towards Room-Temperature Electron Spin Detection in Biological Systems
Nicholas Chisholm , Igor Lovchinsky , Alex Sushkov , David Hunger , Alexey Akimov , Peggy Lo , Amy Sutton , Jacob Robinson , Norman Yao , Steven Bennett , Hongkun Park , Mikhail Lukin

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
12:15PM - 12:27PM

W41.00004: Coherent transfer in biological systems: a study of the role of environmental noise
Nayeli Zuniga-Hansen , Mark S. Byrd

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
12:27PM - 12:39PM

W41.00005: Noise induced quantum effects in photosynthetic complexes
Konstantin Dorfman , Dmitri Voronine , Shaul Mukamel , Marlan Scully

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
12:39PM - 12:51PM

W41.00006: FMO complex: exciton transfer and interaction with vibronic modes
Lev Mourokh , Anatoly Smirnov , Franco Nori

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
12:51PM - 1:03PM

W41.00007: Non-Markovian harmonic bath model for molecular systems: Influence of the bath spectral density
Jan Roden , Alexander Eisfeld , K. Birgitta Whaley

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
1:03PM - 1:15PM

W41.00008: Curvature, torsion and temperature in energy transfer
Yasser Omar

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
1:15PM - 1:27PM

W41.00009: Quantum Process Tomography for Energy Transfer Systems via Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Joel Yuen-Zhou

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
1:27PM - 1:39PM

W41.00010: Coherent vs. dissipative nonequilibrium dynamics in spectroscopy of molecular aggregates
Darius Abramavicius , Andrius Gelzinis , Vytautas Butkus , Leonas Valkunas

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
1:39PM - 1:51PM

W41.00011: New quantum state of protons and electrons in nano-confined water
George Reiter , Alexander Kolesnikov , Stephen Paddison , Jerry Mayers , Phil Platzman

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
1:51PM - 2:03PM

W41.00012: Spectroscopic Characterization of the Water Oxidation Intermediates in the Blue Dimer Ru-Based Catalyst for Artificial Photosynthesis
Dooshaye Moonshiram , Yulia Pushkar , Jonah Jurss , Javier Concepcion , Thomas Meyer , Taisiya Zakharova , Igor Alperovich

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