title: Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems.
abstract: Coherence phenomena arise from interference, or the addition, of wave-like amplitudes with fixed phase differences. Although coherence has been shown to yield transformative ways for improving function, advances have been confined to pristine matter and coherence was considered fragile. However, recent evidence of coherence in chemical and biological systems suggests that the phenomena are robust and can survive in the face of disorder and noise. Here we survey the state of recent discoveries, present viewpoints that suggest that coherence can be used in complex chemical systems, and discuss the role of coherence as a design element in realizing function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Gregory D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Scholes
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Graham R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Fleming
authors.affiliation: Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA.|Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
authors.forename: Lin X
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: Alán
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aspuru-Guzik
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buchleitner
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
authors.forename: David F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Coker
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
authors.forename: Gregory S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Engel
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University Amsterdam, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Rienk
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: van Grondelle
authors.affiliation: Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan.
authors.forename: Akihito
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ishizaki
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Jonas
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada.
authors.forename: Jeff S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Lundeen
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
authors.forename: James K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: McCusker
authors.affiliation: Departments of Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
authors.forename: Shaul
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mukamel
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ogilvie
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Olaya-Castro
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ratner
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA.
authors.forename: Frank C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Spano
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, California 94720, USA.|Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: K Birgitta
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Whaley
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
authors.forename: Xiaoyang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D001703:Biophysics; D004583:Electrons; D004735:Energy Transfer; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry; D008954:Models, Biological; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009038:Motion; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D013997:Time Factors; D014732:Vibration
chemical_list: D008670:Metals