Single-photon absorption and emission from a natural photosynthetic complex

Q Li, K Orcutt, RL Cook, J Sabines-Chesterking… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photosynthesis is generally assumed to be initiated by a single photon,–from the Sun,
which, as a weak light source, delivers at most a few tens of photons per nanometre squared …

Thermo-field dynamics approach to photo-induced electronic transitions driven by incoherent thermal radiation

MF Gelin, R Borrelli - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Coupled charge and energy transfer dynamics in light harvesting complexes from a hybrid hierarchical equations of motion approach

TP Fay, DT Limmer - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We describe a method for simulating exciton dynamics in protein–pigment complexes,
including effects from charge transfer as well as fluorescence. The method combines the …

Fundamental limits of pulsed quantum light spectroscopy: Dipole moment estimation

F Albarelli, E Bisketzi, A Khan, A Datta - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We study the fundamental limits of the precision of estimating parameters of a quantum
matter system when it is probed by a traveling pulse of quantum light. In particular, we focus …

Does entanglement enhance single-molecule pulsed biphoton spectroscopy?

A Khan, F Albarelli, A Datta - Quantum Science and Technology, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
It depends. For a single molecule interacting with one mode of a biphoton probe, we show
that the spectroscopic information has three contributions, only one of which is a genuine …

Emulating quantum entangled biphoton spectroscopy using classical light pulses

L Ko, RL Cook, KB Whaley - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We show that for a class of quantum light spectroscopy (QLS) experiments using n= 0, 1, 2,···
classical light pulses and an entangled photon pair (a biphoton state) where one photon …

Role of chirping in pulsed single-photon spectroscopy

E Darsheshdar, A Khan, F Albarelli, A Datta - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We investigate the precision of estimating the interaction strength between a two-level
system (TLS) and a single-photon pulse when the latter is subject to chirping. We consider …

Performing quantum entangled biphoton spectroscopy using classical light pulses

L Ko, RL Cook, KB Whaley - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.14424, 2023 - arxiv.org
We show that for a class of quantum light spectroscopy (QLS) experiments using n= 0, 1, 2,
$\cdots $ classical light pulses and an entangled photon pair (a biphoton state) where one …

Photosynthetic light harvesting and energy conversion

GR Fleming, J Minagawa, T Renger… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The primary photophysical and photochemical reactions in photosynthesis provide the basis
for oxygenic life on our planet. The study of these reactions is challenging in many respects …

A quantum trajectory picture of single photon absorption and energy transport in photosystem II

RL Cook, L Ko, KB Whaley - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We use quantum trajectory theory to study the dynamics of the first step in photosynthesis for
a single photon interacting with photosystem II (PSII). By considering individual trajectories …