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Quantum coherence enhancement by the chirality-induced spin selectivity effect in the radical-pair mechanism

Yash Tiwari and Vishvendra Singh Poonia*

  • Department of Electronics and Communication, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttrakhand - 247667, India

  • *vishvendra@ece.iitr.ac.in
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Phys. Rev. A 107, 052406 – Published 15 May, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.052406

Abstract

This work investigates the effect of chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) on quantum coherence in the radical-pair (RP) mechanism of avian magnetoreception. Additionally, we examine the correlation of global and local coherence measures with the yield of the signaling state in the RP model. We find that both relative entropy of global coherence and local coherence in the radical pair increase with CISS. However, only global coherence shows a strong correlation with the signaling state yield and thus indicates a plausible utilitarian role for the avian compass. We also analyze the interplay of dipolar and exchange interaction with the CISS and their effect on the coherence of the radical-pair spin. Further, we analyze the effect of environmental decoherence along with CISS. We conclude that a high CISS results in a high correlation of global coherence with signaling state yield. We propose that CISS might play an important role in developing quantum technologies by sustaining coherence in radical-pair-like quantum systems.

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Phys. Rev. A 107, 052406– Published 15 May, 2023
  • Received 8 December 2022
  • Revised 19 March 2023
  • Accepted 27 April 2023
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