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SUBMITTER: Albert F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3644086 | biostudies-other | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20130101
Controlled non-local energy and coherence transfer enables light harvesting in photosynthesis and non-local logical operations in quantum computing. This process is intuitively pictured by a pair of mechanical oscillators, coupled by a spring, allowing for a reversible exchange of excitation. On a microscopic level, the most relevant mechanism of coherent coupling of distant quantum bits--like trapped ions, superconducting qubits or excitons confined in semiconductor quantum dots--is coupling vi ...[more]