Capacity of non-Markovianity to boost the efficiency of molecular switches

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14534v4
• Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:41:53 GMT
• Title: Capacity of non-Markovianity to boost the efficiency of molecular switches
• Authors: Giovanni Spaventa, Susana F. Huelga, Martin B. Plenio
• Abstract summary: We show that memory effects can increase the efficiency of photoisomerization to levels not achievable under a purely thermal Markovian evolution. This provides rigorous evidence that memory effects can provide a resource in biological quantum dynamics.
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• Abstract: Quantum resource theory formulations of thermodynamics offer a versatile tool for the study of fundamental limitations to the efficiency of physical processes, independently of the microscopic details governing their dynamics. Despite the ubiquitous presence of non-Markovian dynamics in open quantum systems at the nanoscale, rigorous proofs of their beneficial effects on the efficiency of quantum dynamical processes at the bio-molecular level have not been reported yet. Here we combine the resource theory of athermality with concepts from the theory of divisibility classes for quantum channels, to prove that memory effects can increase the efficiency of photoisomerization to levels that are not achievable under a purely thermal Markovian (i.e. memoryless) evolution. This provides rigorous evidence that memory effects can provide a resource in biological quantum dynamics, and, more generally, quantum thermodynamics at the nanoscale.

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