Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems

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Nonlinear optical signals and spectroscopy with quantum light (2016, methodology): “…2000), provide a versatile tool for exploring the properties of molecular systems, such as photosynthetic aggregates (Abramavicius et al., 2008; Engel et al., 2007) or coupled (Hybrid-)nanostructures to semiconductor quantum wells (Pasenow et al., 2008; Vogel et al., 2009; Yang et al., 2008;…”
Effect of a biofield treatment on plant growth and adaptation (2015, positive): “However their relevance within biological processes has been confirmed in photosynthesis and migration of birds (Engel et al. 2007; Gauger et al. 2009), and they are known to have significant roles in sensory receptors, which in fact have been proved to have sensitivities up to the level of single…”
Theoretical Limits of Photovoltaics Efficiency and Possible Improvements by Intuitive Approaches Learned from Photosynthesis and Quantum Coherence (2014, background): “Long-lasting quantum beating over a time scale of hundreds of femtoseconds has been observed [165, 175].”
Delocalized excitons in natural light-harvesting complexes (2018, methodology): “Another key suggestion they made (Engel et al., 2007) was that “wavelike energy motion owing to long-lived coherence terms” may be active for the exciton dynamics rather than “semiclassical hopping mechanism,” reviving an old debate (Fleming and Scholes, 2004; Knox, 1996).”