Green sulfur bacteria are a kind of bacteria that are present in lakes and near deep-sea thermal vents. The Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex is a molecular complex that is central to the transfer of light trapped by a light-harvesting antenna to the interior of the cell for photosynthetic activity. There has been some experimental work suggesting that the transfer of excitations across the FMO complex is mediated by quantum correlations. We will investigate quantum correlations in such complexes with a focus on measures of entanglement and other correlations.
Chiral symmetry breaking in strong magnetic fields
Abstract
Ultra strong magnetic field could be there in the interior of neutron stars.Strong magnetic field can also be produced inheavy ion collision experiments. I will discuss chiral symmetry breaking inhot and dense quark matter in presenceof strong magnetic field within a 3 flavor Nambu Jona Lasinio model. Whilemagnetic catalysis of chiral symmetrybreaking is expected for hot matter, inverse magnetic catalysis for chiralsymmetry breaking is expectedat finite chemical potential. The equation of state for strange quark matteris derived within the model. The effect of pressureanisotropy of dense quark matter in presence of magnetic field in the grossstructural properties of neutron stars will also be discussed.
