{"id":965,"date":"2013-09-16T13:12:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T11:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/seminar\/olfaction-molecular-switch\/"},"modified":"2013-09-16T13:12:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T11:12:01","slug":"olfaction-molecular-switch","status":"publish","type":"seminar","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/seminar\/olfaction-molecular-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Olfaction: a molecular switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I will briefly discuss a model of vibrationally assisted electron transport in olfaction.<\/div>\n<div>We investigate exciton \/ electron transport in a two site system interacting with bosonic environment(s), which can be considered a molecular switch. We look at various regimes and analyze conditions under which the switch can be selective. We verify under which assumptions and conditions selective dissipation into a specific mode can help to understand selectivity of the olfactory receptors. We use spin-boson Hamiltonian and polaron transformation formalism to model electron transport in olfaction and investigate its dynamics.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Some references of the related work:<\/div>\n<div>J. C. Brookes et al. PRL 98, 038101 (2007),<\/div>\n<div>I. A. Solov&#8217;yov et al. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2012, 14, 13861&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><em><br \/><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will briefly discuss a model of vibrationally assisted electron transport in olfaction. We investigate exciton \/ electron transport in a two site system interacting with bosonic environment(s), which can be considered a molecular switch. We look at various regimes and analyze conditions under which the switch can be selective. We verify under which assumptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-965","seminar","type-seminar","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seminar\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seminar"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/seminar"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}