Enhancing coherent transport in a photonic network using controllable decoherence

DN Biggerstaff, R Heilmann, AA Zecevik… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Transport phenomena on a quantum scale appear in a variety of systems, ranging from
photosynthetic complexes to engineered quantum devices. It has been predicted that the …

Do photosynthetic complexes use quantum coherence to increase their efficiency? Probably not

E Zerah Harush, Y Dubi - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Answering the titular question has become a central motivation in the field of quantum
biology, ever since the idea was raised following a series of experiments demonstrating …

Shedding (incoherent) light on quantum effects in light-induced biological processes

P Brumer - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Light-induced processes that occur in nature, such as photosynthesis and
photoisomerization in the first steps in vision, are often studied in the laboratory using …

Steady-state analysis of light-harvesting energy transfer driven by incoherent light: From dimers to networks

PY Yang, J Cao - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
The question of how quantum coherence facilitates energy transfer has been intensively
debated in the scientific community. Since natural and artificial light-harvesting units operate …

Classification of coherent enhancements of light-harvesting processes

S Tomasi, I Kassal - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Several kinds of coherence have recently been shown to affect the performance of light-
harvesting systems, in some cases significantly improving their efficiency. Here, we classify …

Quantum Entanglement and State-Transference in Fenna–Matthews–Olson Complexes: A Post-Experimental Simulation Analysis in the Computational Biology …

F Delgado, M Enríquez - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Fenna-Mathews-Olson complexes participate in the photosynthetic process of Sulfur Green
Bacteria. These biological subsystems exhibit quantum features which possibly are …

Electronic–Vibrational Resonance Does Not Significantly Alter Steady-State Transport in Natural Light-Harvesting Systems

LF Calderón, C Chuang, P Brumer - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Oscillations in time-dependent two-dimensional electronic spectra appear as evidence of
quantum coherence in light-harvesting systems related to electronic–vibrational resonant …

Noise-assisted energy transport in electrical oscillator networks with off-diagonal dynamical disorder

RJ León-Montiel, MA Quiroz-Juárez… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Noise is generally thought as detrimental for energy transport in coupled oscillator networks.
However, it has been shown that for certain coherently evolving systems, the presence of …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum dynamics of incoherently driven V-type systems: Analytic solutions beyond the secular approximation

A Dodin, TV Tscherbul, P Brumer - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Closed-form analytic solutions to non-secular Bloch-Redfield master equations for quantum
dynamics of a V-type system driven by weak coupling to a thermal bath, relevant to light …

Absorption and circular dichroism spectra of molecular aggregates with the full cumulant expansion

L Cupellini, F Lipparini, J Cao - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The exciton Hamiltonian of multichromophoric aggregates can be probed by spectroscopic
techniques such as linear absorption and circular dichroism. To compare calculated …