Photosynthesis is a highly optimized process from which valuable lessons can be learned
about the operating principles in nature. Its primary steps involve energy transport operating …

The concept of polaron, emerged from condense matter physics, describes the dynamical
interaction of moving particle with its surrounding bosonic modes. This concept has been …

We develop a perturbative technique for solving Markovian quantum dissipative dynamics,
with the perturbation parameter being a small gap in the eigenspectrum. As an example, we …

The effects of thermal light–matter interaction on the dynamics of photo-induced electronic
transitions in molecules are investigated using a novel first principles approach based on …

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 …

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 …

Whether genuine quantum effects, particularly quantum coherences, can offer an advantage
to quantum devices is a topic of much interest. Here, we study a minimal model, the three …

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 …

We develop a method to simulate the excitonic dynamics of realistic photosynthetic light
harvesting systems, including non-Markovian coupling to phonon degrees of freedom, under …

We provide a unified theoretical approach to the quantum dynamics of absorption of single
photons and subsequent excitonic energy transfer in photosynthetic light-harvesting …