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Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Based Quantum Computing

Part of the book series: Biological Magnetic Resonance ((BIMR,volume 31))

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Quantum effects in biological systems have recently been studied extensively in the fields of quantum computing (QC) and quantum information processing (QIP). The focus of this review is on quantum coherences and entanglement properties created in natural photosynthesis, whose understanding may be crucial for achieving the remarkable efficiency of its excitation energy transfer. In the beginning, an overview of electron and energy transfer in photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) and light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) is given. Then the physical aspects of spin-correlated radical pairs (SCRPs) are described, which are ubiquitous intermediates in a wide range of biochemical reactions. Examples are given mainly with relation to quantum coherences in RCs and LHCs, which persist at room temperature, since such long-lived quantum coherences are crucial for quantum information storage and manipulation. Where appropriate, experimental observations of quantum coherences in artificial molecular assemblies are also briefly surveyed. In the second part, site-directed spin-labeling and pulsed electron-electron double resonance (PELDOR or DEER) are described, which are becoming important techniques in QC/QIP.

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We gratefully acknowledge financial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Collaborative Research Center SFB813 “Chemistry at Spin Centers.” This work was also supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) and Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, “Quantum Cybernetics,” MEXT, Japan.

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Matsuoka, H., Schiemann, O. (2016). Molecular Spins in Biological Systems. In: Takui, T., Berliner, L., Hanson, G. (eds) Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Based Quantum Computing. Biological Magnetic Resonance, vol 31. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3658-8_3

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