scholarly journals Quantum relative entropy shows singlet-triplet coherence is a resource in the radical-pair mechanism of biological magnetic sensing

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
I. K. Kominis
1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 549-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Scaiano ◽  
N. Mohtat ◽  
F. L. Cozens ◽  
J. McLean ◽  
A. Thansandote

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 4758-4765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Capel ◽  
Angelo Lucia ◽  
David Perez-Garcia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Smith ◽  
Hadi Zadeh Haghighi ◽  
Christoph Simon

ABSTRACTUnderstanding the mechanisms underlying anesthesia would be a key step towards understanding consciousness. The process of xenon-induced general anesthesia has been shown to involve electron transfer, and the potency of xenon as a general anesthetic exhibits isotopic dependence. We propose that these observations can be explained by a mechanism in which the xenon nuclear spin influences the recombination dynamics of a naturally occurring radical pair of electrons. We develop a simple model inspired by the body of work on the radical-pair mechanism in cryptochrome in the context of avian magnetoreception, and we show that our model can reproduce the observed isotopic dependence of the general anesthetic potency of xenon in mice. Our results are consistent with the idea that radical pairs of electrons with entangled spins could be important for consciousness.


2015 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Carrillo ◽  
Marcio F. Cornelio ◽  
Marcos C. de Oliveira

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (07) ◽  
pp. 1950022
Author(s):  
Anna Vershynina

We consider a quantum quasi-relative entropy [Formula: see text] for an operator [Formula: see text] and an operator convex function [Formula: see text]. We show how to obtain the error bounds for the monotonicity and joint convexity inequalities from the recent results for the [Formula: see text]-divergences (i.e. [Formula: see text]). We also provide an error term for a class of operator inequalities, that generalizes operator strong subadditivity inequality. We apply those results to demonstrate explicit bounds for the logarithmic function, that leads to the quantum relative entropy, and the power function, which gives, in particular, a Wigner–Yanase–Dyson skew information. In particular, we provide the remainder terms for the strong subadditivity inequality, operator strong subadditivity inequality, WYD-type inequalities, and the Cauchy–Schwartz inequality.


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