Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
India
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Amber Jain
Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, India
One of the holy grail of chemistry is simulating chemical reactions to quantum precision. Newton's laws are not accurate on an atomic scale, and the Schrodinger equation cannot be exactly simulated except for small systems. I will provide some of the major milestones of the 100-year-old quest to simulate chemical dynamics and discuss the modern challenges. I will highlight examples of chemical systems that display the strange Schrodinger's cat behavior (or quantum superposition). I will finish with some of the discoveries from our group in 'observing' Schrondinger's cat for energy flow in photosynthetic systems. There are signatures that nature, through evolution, might be using the quantum superposition principle to enhance energy flow in ways that Newtonian mechanics cannot explain.
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