{"id":127619,"date":"2021-09-13T13:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/quantum-mechanics-for-plants"},"modified":"2021-09-13T13:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:23:31","slug":"quantum-mechanics-for-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/quantum-mechanics-for-plants","title":{"rendered":"Quantum mechanics for plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-mechanics-for-plants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2004<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>To what extent do photosynthetic organisms use quantum mechanics to optimize the capture and distribution of light? Answers are emerging from the examination of energy transfer at the submolecular scale.<\/p>\n<p>The first law of photosynthetic economics is: \u201cA photon saved is a photon earned.\u201d Research into the factors behind this principle has been burgeoning, and has recently culminated in a paper in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> by Jang <i>et al<\/i>.<sup><a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 1\" title=\"Jang, S., Newton, M. D. & Silbey, R. J. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 218301 (2004).\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/431256a#ref-CR1\" id=\"ref-link-section-d3441346e310\">1<\/a><\/sup> in which the authors look at photosynthetic energy transfer at the quantum level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2004 To what extent do photosynthetic organisms use quantum mechanics to optimize the capture and distribution of light? Answers are emerging from the examination of energy transfer at the submolecular scale. The first law of photosynthetic economics is: \u201cA photon saved is a photon earned.\u201d Research into the factors behind this principle has been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}