scholarly journals A Model of Charge-Transfer Excitons: Diffusion, Spin Dynamics, and Magnetic Field Effects

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 2246-2251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chee Kong Lee ◽  
Liang Shi ◽  
Adam P. Willard
2001 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 773-783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisaharu Hayashi ◽  
Yoshio Sakaguchi ◽  
Masanobu Wakasa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadi ZADEH-HAGHIGHI ◽  
Christoph Simon

The exact mechanism behind general anesthesia remains an open question in neuroscience. It has been proposed that anesthetics selectively prevent consciousness and memory via acting on microtubules (MTs). It is known that the magnetic field modulates MT organization. A recent study shows that a radical pair model can explain the isotope effect in xenon-induced anesthesia and predicts magnetic field effects on anesthetic potency. Further, reactive oxygen species are also implicated in MT stability and anesthesia. Based on a simple radical pair mechanism model and a simple mathematical model of MT organization, we show that magnetic fields can modulate spin dynamics of naturally occurring radical pairs in MT. We show that the spin dynamics influence a rate in the reaction cycle, which translates into a change in the MT density. We can reproduce magnetic field effects on the MT concentration that have been observed. Our model also predicts additional effects at slightly higher fields. Our model further predicts that the effect of zinc on the MT density exhibits isotopic dependence. The findings of this work make a connection between microtubule-based and radical pair-based quantum theories of consciousness.


2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Qin ◽  
Maogang Gong ◽  
Tejas Shastry ◽  
Mark C. Hersam ◽  
Shenqiang Ren

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (16) ◽  
pp. 4722-4723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuyuki Ito ◽  
Tadaaki Ikoma ◽  
Kimio Akiyama ◽  
Yasuhiro Kobori ◽  
Shozo Tero-Kubota

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 694-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Xu ◽  
Xiantong Tang ◽  
Jinqiu Deng ◽  
Ruiheng Pan ◽  
Fenlan Qu ◽  
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