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Recently, several works have analysed the efficiency of photosynthetic complexes in a transient scenario and how that efficiency is affected by environmental noise. Here, following a quantum master equation approach, we study the energy and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-02-28 Daniel Manzano

Synchronisation is a collective phenomenon widely investigated in classical oscillators and, more recently, in quantum systems. However, it remains unclear what features distinguish synchronous behaviour in these two scenarios. Recent works…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-19 Stefan Siwiak-Jaszek , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

Here we present a theoretical analysis of inelastic effects on thermoelectric properties of molecular-scale junction in both linear and nonlinear response regimes. Considered device is composed of molecular quantum dot (with discrete energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Kamil Walczak

The effect of vibrational motion on resonant charge transport through single molecule junctions is investigated. The study is based on a combination of first-principles electronic structure calculations to characterize the system and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-24 Claudia Benesch , Martin Cizek , Jiri Klimes , Michael Thoss , Wolfgang Domcke

An elementary excitation in an aggregate of coupled particles generates a collective excited state. We show that the dynamics of these excitations can be controlled by applying a transient external potential which modifies the phase of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Ping Xiang , Marina Litinskaya , Evgeny A. Shapiro , Roman V. Krems

Recent advances in quantum electronics have allowed to engineer hybrid nano-devices comprising on chip a microwave electromagnetic resonator coupled to an artificial atom, a quantum dot. These systems realize novel platforms to explore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-25 Marco Schiró , Karyn Le Hur

A variety of open quantum networks are currently under intense examination to model energy transport in photosynthetic systems. Here we study the coherent transfer of a quantum excitation over a network incoherently coupled with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

Quantum energy teleportation (QET) has been studied in continuum field theory and in lattice many-body systems, but the relation between the two within a single interacting model is still not well understood. To address this question, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Kazuki Ikeda

We investigate the effects of alternating voltage on nonequilibrium quantum systems with localised phonon modes. Nonequilibrium Green's functions are utilised, with electron-phonon coupling being considered with the $GD$ approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Thomas D. Honeychurch , Daniel S. Kosov

We theoretically examine the effect of the coupling of the transport electrons to a vibrational mode of the molecule on the ac linear-response conductance of molecular junctions. Representing the molecule by a single electronic state, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Ueda , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

The influence of vibrational motion on electron conduction through single molecules bound to metal electrodes is investigated employing first-principles electronic-structure calculations and projection-operator Green's function methods.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Benesch , M. Thoss , W. Domcke , M. Cizek

We theoretically show that the initial coherence plays a crucial role in enhancing the speed of excitation energy transfer (EET) in Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex. We choose a simplistic eight-level model considering all the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Davinder Singh , Shubhrangshu Dasgupta

Energy beamforming (EB) is a key technique for achieving efficient radio-frequency (RF) transmission enabled wireless energy transfer (WET). By optimally designing the waveforms from multiple energy transmitters (ETs) over the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Seunghyun Lee , Rui Zhang

Particle-exchange machines utilize electronic transport to continuously transfer heat between fermionic reservoirs. Here, we couple a quantum mechanical resonator to a particle-exchange machine hosted in a quantum dot and let the system run…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Sofia Sevitz , Federico Cerisola , Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Janet Anders

This study investigates the potential impact of intramolecular excitations on the active regions of biomolecular chains, which may play a role in physiological processes within living cells. We assumed that an excitation localized in a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-29 Dalibor Chevizovich , Slobodanka Galovic , Vasilije Matic , Zoran Ivic , Zeljko Przulj

An electron mobility enhancement is the very important phenomenon of an electron in the electronic device, where the high electronic device performance has the good electron mobility, which is obtained by the overall electron drift velocity…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-13 N. Pornsuwancharoen , P. Youplao , I. S. Amiri , J. Ali , P. Yupapin

Currently, molecular tunnel junctions are recognized as important active elements of various nanodevices. This gives a strong motivation to study physical mechanisms controlling electron transport through molecules. Electron motion through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-24 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

Coupling the vibrations of an oscillator to electronic transport is a key building block for nanoelectromechanical systems. They describe many nanoscale electrical components such as molecular junctions. Inspired by recent experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Sofia Sevitz , Federico Cerisola , Janet Anders

We develop a classical mapping approach suitable to describe vibrationally coupled charge transport in molecular junctions based on the Cartesian mapping for many-electron systems [J. Chem. Phys. 137, 154107 (2012)]. To properly describe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 Bin Li , Eli. Y. Wilner , Michael Thoss , Eran Rabani , William H. Miller

On the elementary level, electronic current consists of individual electron tunnelling events that are separated by random time intervals. The waiting time distribution is a probability to observe the electron transfer in the detector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Daniel S. Kosov