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1 postsMagnetic effects in biology: Crucial role of quantum coherence in the radical pair mechanism
This theoretical biophysics study models the radical pair mechanism as an open quantum system to derive an explicit dependence of magnetic-field effects on the spin coherence relaxation time (τ) and chemical kinetics (k). It reports a condition under which RPM effects become significant and estimates τ in cryptochrome-like proteins to be on the order of units to tens of nanoseconds. The paper also reports that nanoTesla-level radio-frequency fields have minor influence and are unlikely to disrupt RPM patterns under the modeled decoherence.
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