Two-colour photon correlations probe coherent vibronic contributions to electronic excitation transport under incoherent illumination
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| author | Nation, Charlie Notararigo, Valentina Gestsson, Hallmann Oskar Sapienza, Luca Olaya-Castro, Alexandra |
| author_facet | Nation, Charlie Notararigo, Valentina Gestsson, Hallmann Oskar Sapienza, Luca Olaya-Castro, Alexandra |
| contents | Identifying signatures of quantum coherent behaviour in photoactive systems that are maintained in stationary states away from thermal equilibrium is an open problem of wide interest in a variety of physical scenarios, including single photosynthetic complexes subjected to continuous incoherent illumination. Here we consider a prototype light-harvesting heterodimer exhibiting coherent and collective exciton-vibration interactions and show that the second-order frequency-filtered correlations of fluorescence photons provide insightful information on the influence of such coherent interactions for different transitions, thereby yielding fundamentally different photon-counting statistics. Furthermore, we show that coherent vibronic mechanisms strongly affect the asymmetries characteristic of time-resolved photon cross-correlations and manifest themselves in a time-dependent violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality bounding cross-correlations for classically fluctuating fields. We finally discuss how such second-order correlation asymmetry establishes important connections between coherent vibronic interactions, directional exciton population transport, and violation of quantum detailed balance. Our work then indicates that measurement of two-colour photon correlation asymmetry can be an important avenue to investigate quantum behaviour of single photoactive biomolecular and chemical systems under incoherent illumination conditions. |
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| spellingShingle | Two-colour photon correlations probe coherent vibronic contributions to electronic excitation transport under incoherent illumination Nation, Charlie Notararigo, Valentina Gestsson, Hallmann Oskar Sapienza, Luca Olaya-Castro, Alexandra Chemical Physics Atomic Physics Biological Physics Quantum Physics Identifying signatures of quantum coherent behaviour in photoactive systems that are maintained in stationary states away from thermal equilibrium is an open problem of wide interest in a variety of physical scenarios, including single photosynthetic complexes subjected to continuous incoherent illumination. Here we consider a prototype light-harvesting heterodimer exhibiting coherent and collective exciton-vibration interactions and show that the second-order frequency-filtered correlations of fluorescence photons provide insightful information on the influence of such coherent interactions for different transitions, thereby yielding fundamentally different photon-counting statistics. Furthermore, we show that coherent vibronic mechanisms strongly affect the asymmetries characteristic of time-resolved photon cross-correlations and manifest themselves in a time-dependent violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality bounding cross-correlations for classically fluctuating fields. We finally discuss how such second-order correlation asymmetry establishes important connections between coherent vibronic interactions, directional exciton population transport, and violation of quantum detailed balance. Our work then indicates that measurement of two-colour photon correlation asymmetry can be an important avenue to investigate quantum behaviour of single photoactive biomolecular and chemical systems under incoherent illumination conditions. |
| title | Two-colour photon correlations probe coherent vibronic contributions to electronic excitation transport under incoherent illumination |
| topic | Chemical Physics Atomic Physics Biological Physics Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00857 |