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Recent developments of quantum information science critically rely on entanglement, an intriguing aspect of quantum mechanics where parts of a composite system can exhibit correlations stronger than any classical counterpart. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-08 K. S. Choi , H. Deng , J. Laurat , H. J. Kimble

The quantum dynamics of entanglement is widely revealed in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes. Different from the previous work, we explore the properties of exciton transport and photosynthesis assisted by the quantum entanglement…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Lu-Xin Xu , Shun-Cai Zhao , Ling-Fang Li

One of the major efforts in the quantum biological program is to subject biological systems to standard tests or measures of quantumness. These tests and measures should elucidate if non-trivial quantum effects may be present in biological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Kamil Bradler , Mark M. Wilde , Sai Vinjanampathy , Dmitry B. Uskov

Entanglement can modify light-matter interaction effects and, conversely, these interactions can change the non-classical correlations present in the system. We present an example where these mutual connections can be discussed in a simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Pedro Sancho

In this thesis, we report the theoretical and experimental investigations towards the creation, characterization, and manipulation of quantum entanglement in a photonic system. We examine two different aspects of quantum entanglement: In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Ashutosh Singh

We study entanglement harvesting for matter systems such as atoms, ions or molecules, whose center of mass degrees of freedom are quantum delocalized and which couple to a relativistic quantum field. We employ a generalized Unruh-deWitt…

We report on the quantification of entanglement by means of entanglement measures on a four- and a six- qubit cluster state realized by using photons entangled both in polarization and linear momentum. This paper also addresss the question…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 H. Wunderlich , G. Vallone , P. Mataloni , M. B. Plenio

Entanglement is an extraordinary feature of quantum mechanics. Sources of entangled optical photons were essential to test the foundations of quantum physics through violations of Bell's inequalities. More recently, entangled many-body…

A bipartite multiphoton entangled state is created through stimulated parametric down-conversion of strong laser pulses in a nonlinear crystal. It is shown how detectors that do not resolve photon number can be used to analyze such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. S. Eisenberg , G. Khoury , G. A. Durkin , C. Simon , D. Bouwmeester

We address the problem of the persistence of entanglement of quantum light under mode transformations, where orthogonal modes define the parties between which quantum correlations can occur. Since the representation of a fixed photonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Jan Sperling , Armando Perez-Leija , Kurt Busch , Christine Silberhorn

The idea that excitonic state (electronic) coherences are of fundamental importance to natural photosynthesis gained popularity when, a decade ago, slowly dephasing quantum beats were observed in the two-dimensional electronic spectra of…

Entanglement is a fundamental resource for quantum information processing, occurring naturally in many-body systems at low temperatures. The presence of entanglement and, in particular, its scaling with the size of system partitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-21 M. Cramer , A. Bernard , N. Fabbri , L. Fallani , C. Fort , S. Rosi , F. Caruso , M. Inguscio , M. B. Plenio

Research into the efficiency of photosynthetic light harvesting has focused on two factors: (1) entanglement of chromophores, and (2) environmental noise. While chromophores are conjugated $\pi$-bonding molecules with strongly correlated…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 David A. Mazziotti

Quantum entanglement is of central importance to quantum computing, quantum metrology, quantum information as well as the nature of quantum physics. Quantum theory does not prevent entanglement from being created and observed in macroscopic…

We theoretically investigate polarization-filtered two-photon correlations for the light emitted by a multichromophoric system undergoing excitation transport under realistic exciton-phonon interactions, and subject to continuous incoherent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Charlie Nation , Hallmann Oskar Gestsson , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

Entanglement in high-dimensional quantum systems, where one or more degrees of freedom of light are involved, offers increased information capacities and enables new quantum protocols. Here, we demonstrate a functional source of…

Quantum transduction is essential for the future hybrid quantum networks, connecting devices across different spectral ranges. In this regard, molecular modulation in hollow-core fibers has proven to be exceptional for efficient and tunable…

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Entanglement detection is essential in quantum information science and quantum many-body physics. It has been proved that entanglement exists almost surely for a random quantum state, while the realizations of effective entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Pengyu Liu , Zhenhuan Liu , Shu Chen , Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum theory predicts that entanglement can also persist in macroscopic physical systems, albeit difficulties to demonstrate it experimentally remain. Recently, significant progress has been achieved and genuine entanglement between up to…

We examine computational techniques and methodologies currently in use to explore electronic excitation energy transfer in the context of light-harvesting complexes in photosynthetic antenna systems, and comment on some new insights into…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-07-05 Leonardo A. Pachon , Paul Brumer