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Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) energy transfer
INFRA
Nature has photosynthetic systems that move energy with almost perfect efficiency — the well-studied FMO complex is the textbook example. We reference it because mature biofilms on buildings appear to borrow some of that same efficiency, which helps explain why established growth is so stubborn. It is the real science grounding our work on resilient colonies.
The Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex is the well-studied photosynthetic pigment-protein assembly in green sulphur bacteria in which excitonic energy migrates from antenna to reaction centre with near-unity efficiency, partly via quantum-coherent pathways. ATH adopts FMO as the established physical analogy for its QCM hypothesis: that mature, multi-species phototrophic biofilms on buildings may achieve comparable coherence and energy-transfer efficiency, explaining their extreme resilience. It is the real-science foundation that grounds the framework's quantum-biofilm strand.
quantum coherence in biofilms
The Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex is the well-studied photosynthetic pigment-protein assembly in green sulphur bacteria in which excitonic energy migrates from antenna to reaction centre with near-unity efficiency, partly via quantum-coherent pathways. ATH adopts FMO as the established physical analogy for its QCM hypothesis: that mature, multi-species phototrophic biofilms on buildings may achieve comparable coherence and energy-transfer efficiency, explaining their extreme resilience. It is the real-science foundation that grounds the framework's quantum-biofilm strand.
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