Graduate Quantum biology - photosynthesis

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The discussion centers on understanding a paper related to quantum biology and photosynthesis, particularly its implications for energy transfer efficiency. A chemical engineering student seeks clarification to apply the concepts to their thesis and is looking for expert guidance. Participants emphasize the importance of pinpointing specific areas of confusion to provide better assistance. The conversation also touches on the relevance of quantum effects at the molecular level, particularly concerning DNA mutations and cancer. The topic raises intriguing questions about the relationship between quantum mechanics and biological processes.
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You will get better and mor helpful answers if you will tell us where you got lost. We can help you over any hard spots, but only if we know where they are.
 
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You will get better and mor helpful answers if you will tell us where you got lost. We can help you over any hard spots, but only if we know where they are.
Firstly thank you for your answer.
secondly, I am trying to apply the ideas in this paper to my thesis.
I am actually trying to meet someone who is quite knowledgeable in this area. Because I am a chemical engineering student at UNSW Sydney.
 
The efficiency of the energy transfers requires quantum theory to explain it.

Hardly surprizing - at the scale of DNA alleles(0.3nm) quantum effects should be ubiquitous. A single allele mutation can cause cancer if not corrected by polymerase. Neither strong determinism nor quantum indeterminism make any sense to me in this scenario.

PS. Do some(all?) cancers arise Schroedinger's cat style? 🤔
 
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Thread 'Two equivalent statements of time reversal symmetric Hamiltonian'

Time reversal invariant Hamiltonians must satisfy ##[H,\Theta]=0## where ##\Theta## is time reversal operator. However, in some texts (for example see Many-body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics an introduction, HENRIK BRUUS and KARSTEN FLENSBERG, Corrected version: 14 January 2016, section 7.1.4) the time reversal invariant condition is introduced as ##H=H^*##. How these two conditions are identical?
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