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Navigation of migratory songbirds: a quantum magnetic compass sensor

Published:2021-07-01 Issue:3 Volume:27 Page:141-150
ISSN:0947-0875
Container-title:Neuroforum
language:en
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Author:

Wong Siu Ying¹,Frederiksen Anders¹,Hanić Maja¹,Schuhmann Fabian¹,Grüning Gesa¹,Hore P. J.²,Solov’yov Ilia A.¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics , Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg , Carl-von-Ossietzky Str. 9–11 , 26129 Oldenburg , Germany

2. Department of Chemistry , University of Oxford , Oxford , OX1 3QZ , UK

Abstract

Abstract The remarkable ability of migratory birds to navigate accurately using the geomagnetic field for journeys of thousands of kilometres is currently thought to arise from radical pair reactions inside a protein called cryptochrome. In this article, we explain the quantum mechanical basis of the radical pair mechanism and why it is currently the dominant theory of compass magnetoreception. We also provide a brief account of two important computational simulation techniques that are used to study the mechanism in cryptochrome: spin dynamics and molecular dynamics. At the end, we provide an overview of current research on quantum mechanical processes in avian cryptochromes and the computational models for describing them.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Clinical Neurology,Neurology

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/nf-2021-0005/pdf

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