Efficient and coherent excitation transfer across disordered molecular networks

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2011 Feb;83(2 Pt 1):021912. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.021912. Epub 2011 Feb 22.

Abstract

We show that finite-size, disordered molecular networks can mediate highly efficient, coherent excitation transfer which is robust against ambient dephasing and associated with strong multisite entanglement. Such optimal, random molecular conformations may explain efficient energy transfer in the photosynthetic Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex.