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Coherent quantum dynamics launched by incoherent relaxation in a quantum circuit simulator of a light-harvesting complex

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Engineering and harnessing coherent excitonic transport in organic nanostructures has recently been suggested as a promising way towards improving manmade light-harvesting materials. However, realizing and testing the dissipative system-environment models underlying these proposals is presently very challenging in supramolec-ular materials. A promising alternative is to use simpler and highly tunable "quantum simulators" built from programmable qubits, as recently achieved in a superconducting circuit by Potočnik et al. [A. Potočnik et al., Nat. Commun. 9, 904 (2018)]. We simulate the real-time dynamics of an exciton coupled to a quantum bath as it moves through a network based on the quantum circuit of Potočnik et al. Using the numerically exact hierarchical equations of motion to capture the open quantum system dynamics, we find that an ultrafast but completely incoherent relaxation from a high-lying "bright" exciton into a doublet of closely spaced "dark" excitons can spontaneously generate electronic coherences and oscillatory real-space motion across the network (quantum beats). Importantly, we show that this behavior also survives when the environmental noise is classically stochastic (effectively high temperature), as in present experiments. These predictions highlight the possibilities of designing matched electronic and spectral noise structures for robust coherence generation that do not require coherent excitation or cold environments.
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hal-02372604 , version 1 (20-11-2019)

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Alex Chin, Etienne Mangaud, O. Atabek, Michèle Desouter-Lecomte. Coherent quantum dynamics launched by incoherent relaxation in a quantum circuit simulator of a light-harvesting complex. Physical Review A, 2018, 97 (6), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevA.97.063823⟩. ⟨hal-02372604⟩
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