State Transitions and Decoherence in the Avian Compass
, 2015 The radical pair model has been successful in explaining behavioral characteristics of the geomagnetic compass believed to underlie the navigation capability of certain avian species.
Ganguly, Swaroop +2 more
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Spreading Electron Density Thin: Increasing the Chromophore Size in Polyaromatic Wires Decreases Interchromophoric Electronic Coupling [PDF]
, 2018 The development of novel polychromophoric materials using extended polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as a single large chromophore holds promise for long-range charge-transfer applications in photovoltaic devices and molecular electronics.
Hossain, Mohammad Mosharraf +4 more
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Scheme for Detection of Single-Molecule Radical Pair Reaction Using Spin in Diamond. [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2016 The radical pair reaction underlies the magnetic field sensitivity of chemical reactions and is suggested to play an important role in both chemistry and biology.
Haibin Liu, M. Plenio, Jianming Cai
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Statistical Amplification of the Effects of Weak Magnetic Fields in Cellular Translation
Cells, 2023 We assume that the enzymatic processes of recognition of amino acids and their addition to the synthesized molecule in cellular translation include the formation of intermediate pairs of radicals with spin-correlated electrons.
Vladimir N. Binhi
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Coherent chemical kinetics as quantum walks II: Radical-pair reactions in Arabidopsis thaliana
, 2015 We apply the quantum-walk approach recently proposed in arXiv:quant-ph-1506.04213 to a radical-pair reaction where realistic estimates for the intermediate transition rates are available.
Chia, A. +4 more
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Avian magnetoreception model realized by coupling a magnetite-based mechanism with a radical-pair-based mechanism [PDF]
Chinese Physics B, 2013 Many animal species were verified to use geomagnetic field for their navigation, but the biophysical mechanism of magnetoreception has remained enigmatic. This paper presents a special biophysical model that consists of magnetite-based and radical-pair-based mechanisms for avian magnetoreception. The amplitude of the resultant magnetic field around the
Lu, Yan, Song, Tao
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Cryptochrome mediates light-dependent magnetosensitivity of Drosophila's circadian clock.
PLoS Biology, 2009 Since 1960, magnetic fields have been discussed as Zeitgebers for circadian clocks, but the mechanism by which clocks perceive and process magnetic information has remained unknown.
Taishi Yoshii +2 more
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A combined "electrochemical-frustrated Lewis pair" approach to hydrogen activation: surface catalytic effects at platinum electrodes [PDF]
, 2014 Herein, we extend our “combined electrochemical–frustrated Lewis pair” approach to include Pt electrode surfaces for the first time. We found that the voltammetric response of an electrochemical–frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) system involving the B(C6F5)3 ...
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Activation of Cryptochrome 4 from Atlantic Herring
BiologyMarine fish migrate long distances up to hundreds or even thousands of kilometers for various reasons that include seasonal dependencies, feeding, or reproduction. The ability to perceive the geomagnetic field, called magnetoreception, is one of the many
Anders Frederiksen +3 more
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Sensitive Chemical Compass Assisted by Quantum Criticality
, 2011 The radical-pair-based chemical reaction could be used by birds for the navigation via the geomagnetic direction. An inherent physical mechanism is that the quantum coherent transition from a singlet state to triplet states of the radical pair could ...
C. P. Sun +6 more
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