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Understanding energy transport in quantum systems is crucial for an understanding of light-harvesting in nature, and for the creation of new quantum technologies. Open quantum systems theory has been successfully applied to predict the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Alexandre R. Coates , Brendon W. Lovett , Erik M Gauger

Disorder, noise and interaction play a crucial role in the transport properties of real systems, but they are typically hard to control and study both theoretically and experimentally, especially in the quantum case. Here we explore a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-12 C. D'Errico , M. Moratti , E. Lucioni , L. Tanzi , B. Deissler , M. Inguscio , G. Modugno , M. B. Plenio , F. Caruso

One of the new discoveries in quantum biology is the role of Environment Assisted Quantum Transport (ENAQT) in excitonic transport processes. In disordered quantum systems transport is most efficient when the environment just destroys…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Gabor Vattay , Istvan Csabai

Quantum hardware increasingly relies on energy reserves that can later be converted into useful work; yet, most battery-like proposals demand coherent drives or engineered non-equilibrium resources, limiting practicality in noisy settings.…

Counter-intuitively, quantum mechanics enables quantum particles to propagate simultaneously among multiple space-time trajectories. Hence, a quantum information carrier can travel through different communication channels in a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Marcello Caleffi , Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

Stunningly large exciton transfer rates in the light harvesting complex of photosynthesis, together with recent experimental 2D spectroscopic data, have spurred a vivid debate on the possible quantum origin of such efficiency. Here we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-29 Torsten Scholak , Thomas Wellens , Andreas Buchleitner

Photosynthesis is a biological process that involves the highly-efficient transport of energy captured from the sun to a reaction center, where conversion into useful biochemical energy takes place. Even though one can always use a quantum…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 R. de J. León-Montiel , Juan P. Torres

We study the interplay between two environmental influences on excited state energy transfer in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes, namely, vibrationally assisted energy transfer (VAET) and environment-assisted quantum transport…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Zeng-Zhao Li , Liwen Ko , Zhibo Yang , Mohan Sarovar , K. Birgitta Whaley

We study the effect of noise on the transport of a quantum state from a closed loop of $n-$sites with one of the sites as a sink. Using a discrete-time quantum walk dynamics, we demonstrate that the transport efficiency can be enhanced with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-26 C. M. Chandrashekar , Th. Busch

We report the results of an in-depth study of the role of graph topology on quantum transport efficiency in random removal and Watts-Strogatz networks. By using four different environmental models -- noiseless, driving by classical random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Arzu Kurt , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Jyrki Piilo

Transport phenomena in photosynthetic systems have attracted a great deal of attention due to their potential role in devising novel photovoltaic materials. In particular, energy transport in light-harvesting complexes is considered quite…

Quantum phenomena are typically observable at length and time scales smaller than those of our everyday experience, often involving individual particles or excitations. The past few decades have seen a revolution in the ability to structure…

Quantum systems are inherently susceptible to noise -- a notorious factor that induces decoherence and limits the performance of quantum applications. To mitigate its detrimental effects, various techniques have been developed, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Yu-Bo Hou , Xiaoan Ai , Ruizhe You , Changchun Zhong

Nonequilibrium quantum transport is of central importance in nanotechnology. Its description requires the understanding of strong electronic correlations, which couple atomic-scale phenomena to the nanoscale. So far, research in correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 A. Erpenbeck , E. Gull , G. Cohen

The decoherence of quantum states defines the transition between the quantum world and classical physics. Decoherence or, analogously, quantum mechanical collapse events pose fundamental questions regarding the interpretation of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 P. Bredol , H. Boschker , D. Braak , J. Mannhart

We present an overview of time-dependent transport phenomena in quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on steady-state regimes. We present the ideas after the main theoretical frameworks to study open-quantum systems out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Matteo Acciai , Liliana Arrachea , Janine Splettstoesser

Physicists are attracted to open-system dynamics, how quantum systems evolve, and how they can protected from unnecessary environmental noise, especially environmental memory effects are not negligible, as with non-Markovian approximations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Akbar Islam , An Min Wang , Ahmad Abliz

High-dimensional teleportation provides various benefits in quantum networks and repeaters, but all these advantages rely on the high-quality distribution of high-dimensional entanglement over a noisy channel. It is essential to consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Xing Xiao , Tian-Xiang Lu , Yan-Ling Li

In quantum transport through nanoscale devices, fluctuations arise from various sources: the discreteness of charge carriers, the statistical non-equilibrium that is required for device operation, and unavoidable quantum uncertainty. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Samuel L. Rudge , Daniel S. Kosov

Quantum transport is strongly influenced by interference with phase relations that depend sensitively on the scattering medium. Since even small changes in the geometry of the medium can turn constructive interference to destructive, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Stefano Mostarda , Federico Levi , Diego Prada-Gracia , Florian Mintert , Francesco Rao