Seeking a quantum advantage with trapped-ion quantum simulations of condensed-phase chemical dynamics

M Kang, H Nuomin, SN Chowdhury, JL Yuly… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Simulating the quantum dynamics of molecules in the condensed phase represents a
longstanding challenge in chemistry. Trapped-ion quantum systems may serve as a platform …

Computational elucidations on the role of vibrations in energy transfer processes of photosynthetic complexes

KH Cho, YM Rhee - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Coupling between pigment excitations and nuclear movements in photosynthetic complexes
is known to modulate the excitation energy transfer (EET) efficiencies. Toward providing …

Enhancement of vibrationally assisted energy transfer by proximity to exceptional points, probed by fluorescence-detected vibrational spectroscopy

ZZ Li, KB Whaley - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Emulation of energy transfer processes in natural systems on quantum platforms can further
our understanding of complex dynamics in nature. One notable example is the …

Interplay of vibration-and environment-assisted energy transfer

ZZ Li, L Ko, Z Yang, M Sarovar… - New Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the interplay between two environmental influences on excited state energy
transfer in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes, namely, vibrationally assisted energy …

A Comprehensive Approach to Exciton Delocalization and Energy Transfer

D Giavazzi, S Saseendran, F Di Maiolo… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electrostatic intermolecular interactions lie at the heart of both the Förster model for
resonance energy transfer (RET) and the exciton model for energy delocalization. In the …

Vibrational response functions for multidimensional electronic spectroscopy in nonadiabatic models

F Troiani - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The interplay of nuclear and electronic dynamics characterizes the multidimensional
electronic spectra of various molecular and solidstate systems. Theoretically, the observable …

Cooperation between excitation energy transfer and antisynchronously coupled vibrations

KH Cho, YM Rhee - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021 - ACS Publications
The effects of the environment in energy transfer systems have been continuously studied
for decades. Here, we investigate how the energy transfer and the emergence of vibrational …

Topological quantum interference in a pumped Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice

ZZ Li, J Atalaya, KB Whaley - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Topological quantum interference emerges from the interplay between quantum mechanics
and topology. We present evidence for two types of such interference phenomenon that can …

Dynamic embedding of effective harmonic normal mode vibrations in all-atomistic energy gap fluctuations: Case study of light harvesting 2 complex

KH Cho, SJ Jang, YM Rhee - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Environmental effects in excitation energy transfer have mostly been modeled by baths of
harmonic oscillators, but to what extent such modeling provides a reliable description of …

[PDF][PDF] Trapped-ion quantum simulations for condensed-phase chemical dynamics: seeking a quantum advantage

M Kang, H Nuomin, SN Chowdhury… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Simulating the quantum dynamics of molecules in the condensed phase represents a
longstanding challenge in chemistry. Trapped-ion quantum systems may serve as a platform …