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Communication: Exciton–phonon information flow in the energy transfer process of photosynthetic complexes

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Rebentrost, Patrick, Aspuru-Guzik, Alán·2011·The Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI 10.1063/1.3563617
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Non-Markovian and nonequilibrium phonon effects are believed to be key ingredients in the energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes, especially in complexes which exhibit a regime of intermediate exciton–phonon coupling. In this work, we utilize a recently developed measure for non-Markovianity to elucidate the exciton–phonon dynamics in terms of the information flow between electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom. We study the measure in the hierarchical equation of motion approach which captures strong coupling effects and nonequilibrium molecular reorganization. We propose an additional trace distance measure for the information flow that could be extended to other master equations. We find that for a model dimer system and for the Fenna–Matthews–Olson complex the non-Markovianity is significant under physiological conditions.

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  • A careful preparation of the initial environmental state allows control of the information flow between the system and its environment and observation of the transition from the Markovian to the non-Markovian regime through quantum state tomography on the open system.

    “It was shown further that a careful preparation of the initial environmental state allows to control the information flow between the system and its environment and to observe the transition from the Markovian to the non-Markovian regime through quantum state tomography carried out on the open system.”

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  • A complete determination of the non-Markovianity measure is experimentally possible, including the realization of the maximization over initial states in the definition.

    “It has been demonstrated that a complete determination of the measure is experimentally possible, including the realization of the maximization over initial states in the definition (76).”

    From Foundations and measures of quantum non-Markovianity (2012) · cites this paper as [44]

  • Two experiments determining the non-Markovianity measure have been carried out employing photons moving in optical fibers or birefringent materials.

    “Quite recently, two experiments determining this quantity have been carried out employing photons moving in optical fibers or birefringent materials [44, 45].”

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  • Both the quantum measure for non-Markovianity and the witness for initial system-environment correlations have been demonstrated to be experimentally measurable quantities.

    “Both the quantum measure for non-Markovianity and the witness for initial systemenvironment correlations studied here have been demonstrated very recently to be experimentally measurable quantities [44, 45, 48, 49].”

    From Foundations and measures of quantum non-Markovianity (2012) · cites this paper as [44]

  • In these experiments, the open system is provided by the polarization degrees of freedom of the photons, while the environment is given by their frequency (mode) degrees of freedom.

    “In these experiments the open system is provided by the polarization degrees of freedom of the photons, while the environment is given by their frequency (mode) degrees of freedom.”

    From Foundations and measures of quantum non-Markovianity (2012) · cites this paper as [44]

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Authors
Rebentrost, P., & Aspuru-Guzik, A.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, , 12 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
ORCID
Rebentrost, Patrick
Venue
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Publisher
AIP Publishing
Published
2011-03-10
Volume
134
Issue
10
Pages
101103-101103
ISSN
  • 0021-9606 (ISSN-L)
  • 1089-7690
DOI
10.1063/1.3563617
OpenAlex
W1993739693
Cited by
102
References
29
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FWCI
8.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • The Journal of Chemical Physics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
U.S. Department of Energy (DE-SC0001088)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
Keywords
exciton-phonon coupling, non-Markovianity, information flow, photosynthetic energy transfer, Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex, hierarchical equations of motion, trace distance, strong coupling, dimer model

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