Presentation Information
[8p-C310-1][Invited Talk] Animal magnetoreception and electron spin coherence
〇Kiminori Maeda1 (1.Saitama Univ.)
Keywords:
Spin Chemistry,Animal magnetoreception,Quantum Biology
Although the radical pair mechanism is regarded as one of the leading explanations for magnetic sensing in animals, experimental observations of geomagnetic level magnetic field effects remain limited compared with theoretical expectations. The response of radical pairs to very small magnetic fields is called "Low Field Effect" and has been widely discussed, yet the extent to which a coherent description of electron-nuclear spin dynamics is essential is still not fully understood. In this session, the speakers will address these coherent spin dynamics in the time domain using magnetic field switching and the recently developed pump-push spectroscopy (Mims et al. 374 (2021) 1470-1474). We aim to discuss how these approaches relate to, complement, or potentially redefine our understanding of the low field effect.