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Quantumness in light harvesting is determined by vibrational dynamics
摘要： We demonstrate for the multi-level spin-boson (MLSB) Hamiltonian, typically used to describe biological light-harvesting, that the distinction between quantum and classical dynamics is determined entirely by the thermal environment. In particular, any MLSB model featuring classical interactions with a classical bath is exactly equivalent in its absorption and energy transfer dynamics to a classical model involving coupled harmonic oscillators. This result holds in the linear response regime for both pulsed and incoherent excitation. In the biological context, this finding highlights the centrality of vibrational dynamics in determining the 'quantumness' of photosynthetic light-harvesting, particularly in the creation of the photosynthetic energy funnel where excitation energy concentrates near the reaction center via a series of downhill energy transfer events. These findings support the idea that this energy funnel is exclusively quantum-mechanical in origin, although it need not rely on entanglement.
关键词： vibrational dynamics,energy transfer,photosynthesis,quantumness,light harvesting,spin-boson model
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Driven quantum dot coupled to a fractional quantum Hall edge
摘要： We study a model of a quantum dot coupled to a quantum Hall edge of the Laughlin state, taking into account short-range interactions between the dot and the edge. This system has been studied experimentally in electron quantum optics in the context of single particle sources. We consider driving the dot out of equilibrium by a time-dependent bias voltage. We calculate the resulting current on the edge by applying the Kubo formula to the bosonized Hamiltonian. The Hamiltonian of this system can also be mapped to the spin-boson model and, in this picture, the current can be perturbatively calculated using the noninteracting blip approximation. We show that both methods of solution are in fact equivalent. We present numerics demonstrating that the perturbative approaches capture the essential physics at early times, although they fail to capture the charge quantization (or lack thereof) in the current pulses integrated over long times.
关键词： spin-boson model,quantum Hall edge,Laughlin state,quantum dot,noninteracting blip approximation,Kubo formula
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04