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Fluctuations in the energy gap and coupling constants in and between chromophores can play important role in the absorption and energy transfer across a collection of two level systems. In a noisy environment, fluctuations can control…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Rajesh Dutta , Biman Bagchi

We investigate the selective forces that promote the emergence of modularity in nature. We demonstrate the spontaneous emergence of modularity in a population of individuals that evolve in a changing environment. We show that the level of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Jun Sun , Michael W. Deem

The destruction of quantum coherence by environmental influences is investigated taking the damped harmonic oscillator and the dissipative two-state system as prototypical examples. It is shown that the location of the coherent-incoherent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Reinhold Egger , Hermann Grabert , Ulrich Weiss

We investigate Brownian motion with diffusivity alternately fluctuating between fast and slow states. We assume that sojourn-time distributions of these two states are given by exponential or power-law distributions. We develop a theory of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-17 Tomoshige Miyaguchi , Takashi Uneyama , Takuma Akimoto

It has been observed experimentally [H.R. Xia, C.Y. Ye, and S.Y. Zhu, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 77}, 1032 (1996)] that quantum interference between two molecular transitions can lead to a suppression or enhancement of spontaneous emission. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jin Wang , H. M. Wiseman , Z. Ficek

During their lifetimes, individuals in populations pass through different states, and the notion of an occupancy time describes the amount of time an individual spends in a given set of states. Questions related to this idea were studied in…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-02 George Chappelle , Alan Hastings , Martin Rasmussen

Tracking experiments in dense biological tissues reveal a diversity of sources f or local energy injection at the cell scale. The effect of cell motility has been largely studied, but much less is known abo ut the effect of the observed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-29 Elsen Tjhung , Ludovic Berthier

We experimentaly investigate higher-order seeded modulation instability in an optical fiber experiment. The recirculating loop configuration with round-trip losses compensation enables the observation in single-shot of the spatio-temporal…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-27 François Copie , Pierre Suret , Stéphane Randoux

Recently, nuclear vibrational contribution signatures in 2D electronic spectroscopy have attracted considerable interest, in particular as regards interpretation of the oscillatory transients observed in light-harvesting complexes. These…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yuta Fujihashi , Graham R. Fleming , Akihito Ishizaki

Light-matter interaction dynamics is governed by the strength of local coupling constants, tailored by surrounding electromagnetic structures. Characteristic decay times in dipole-allowed fluorescent transitions are much faster than…

We extend the stationary-state work fluctuation theorem to periodically modulated nonlinear systems. Such systems often have coexisting stable periodic states. We show that work fluctuations sharply increase near a kinetic phase transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. I. Dykman

We study fluctuations of the Wigner time delay for open (scattering) systems which exhibit mixed dynamics in the classical limit. It is shown that in the semiclassical limit the time delay fluctuations have a distribution that differs…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-09 J. P. Keating , A. M. Ozorio de Almeida , S. D. Prado , M. Sieber , R. Vallejos

A Markov process fluctuating away from its typical behavior can be represented in the long-time limit by another Markov process, called the effective or driven process, having the same stationary states as the original process conditioned…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-30 Florian Angeletti , Hugo Touchette

Understanding molecular state evolution is central to many disciplines, including molecular dynamics, precision measurement, and molecule-based quantum technology. Details of the evolution are obscured when observing a statistical ensemble…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Yu Liu , Julian Schmidt , Zhimin Liu , David R. Leibrandt , Dietrich Leibfried , Chin-wen Chou

Quasi-periodic fluctuations in the light curves of blazars can provide insight into the underlying emission process. This type of flux modulation hints at periodic physical processes that result in emission. CTA 102, a flat spectrum radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-15 Arkadipta Sarkar , Pankaj Kushwaha , Alok C. Gupta , Varsha R. Chitnis , Paul J. Wiita

Recent observations of beating signals in the excitation energy transfer dynamics of photosynthetic complexes have been interpreted as evidence for sustained coherences that are sufficiently long-lived for energy transport and coherence to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 A. W. Chin , J. Prior , R. Rosenbach , F. Caycedo-Soler , S. F. Huelga , M. B. Plenio

Populations interact non-linearly and are influenced by environmental fluctuations. In order to have realistic mathematical models, one needs to take into account that the environmental fluctuations are inherently stochastic. Often,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Alexandru Hening , Siddharth Sabharwal

Depending on how the dynamical activity of a particle in a random environment is influenced by an external field $E$, its differential mobility at intermediate $E$ can turn negative. We discuss the case where for slowly changing random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-13 Urna Basu , Christian Maes

Many-body approaches to open quantum systems have recently become powerful tools for investigating the detailed role of dissipative environments in diverse non-equilibrium molecular and condensed matter processes. Here, we report the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Florian A. Y. N. Schröder , Alex W. Chin

We address the general problem of the excitation spectrum for light coupled to scatterers having quantum fluctuating positions around the sites of a periodic lattice. In addition to providing an imaginary part to the spectrum, we show that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Mauro Antezza , Yvan Castin