Alexandra Olaya-Castro

TL;DR: The principles learned from studies of various natural antenna complexes are described and how to elucidate strategies for designing light-harvesting systems are suggested to be used for solar fuel production, to direct and regulate excitation energy flow using molecular organizations that facilitate feedback and control, or to transfer excitons over long distances.

TL;DR: The state of recent discoveries is surveyed, viewpoints that suggest that coherence can be used in complex chemical systems are presented, and the role of coherence as a design element in realizing function is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of quantum coherence in the efficiency of excitation transfer in a ring-hub arrangement of interacting two-level systems was investigated, mimicking a light harvesting antenna connected to a reaction center as it is found in natural photosynthetic systems.

TL;DR: In prototype dimers present in a variety of photosynthetic antennae, efficient vibration-assisted energy transfer in the sub-picosecond timescale and at room temperature can manifest and benefit from non-classical fluctuations of collective pigment motions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide some foundations and perhaps inspirations for new directions of research in the field of energy transfer in multichromophoric systems, and highlight open problems in describing energy transfer beyond standard approximations as well as the need of new approaches to ch...