Optimally designed quantum transport across disordered networks.

@article{Walschaers2012OptimallyDQ,
  title={Optimally designed quantum transport across disordered networks.},
  author={Mattia Walschaers and Jorge Fernandez-de-Cossio-Diaz and Roberto Mulet and Andreas Buchleitner},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2012},
  volume={111 18},
  pages={
          180601
        }
}
We establish a general mechanism for highly efficient quantum transport through finite, disordered 3D networks. It relies on the interplay of disorder with centrosymmetry and a dominant doublet spectral structure and can be controlled by the proper tuning of only coarse-grained quantities. Photosynthetic light harvesting complexes are discussed as potential biological incarnations of this design principle. 
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