TY - JOUR A2 - Veloz, Tomas AU - Guimarães, José Diogo AU - Tavares, Carlos AU - Barbosa, Luís Soares AU - Vasilevskiy, Mikhail I. PY - 2020 DA - 2020/09/16 TI - Simulation of Nonradiative Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Systems Using a Quantum Computer SP - 3510676 VL - 2020 AB - Photosynthesis is an important and complex physical process in nature, whose comprehensive understanding would have many relevant industrial applications, for instance, in the field of energy production. In this paper, we propose a quantum algorithm for the simulation of the excitonic transport of energy, occurring in the first stage of the process of photosynthesis. The algorithm takes in account the quantum and environmental effects (pure dephasing), influencing the quantum transport. We performed quantum simulations of such phenomena, for a proof of concept scenario, in an actual quantum computer, IBM Q, of 5 qubits. We validate the results with the Haken-Ströbl model and discuss the influence of environmental parameters on the efficiency of the energy transport. SN - 1076-2787 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/3510676 DO - 10.1155/2020/3510676 JF - Complexity PB - Hindawi KW - ER -