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ArticleNature communications2013

Suppression of population transport and control of exciton distributions by entangled photons.

Frank Schlawin, Konstantin E Dorfman, Benjamin P Fingerhut, Shaul Mukamel

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Article in Nature communications, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Colors of entangled two-photon absorption.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  3. Quantum interferometry and pathway selectivity in the nonlinear response of photosynthetic excitons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  4. Photoelectron spectroscopy with entangled photons; enhanced spectrotemporal resolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  5. Multidimensional four-wave mixing signals detected by quantum squeezed light.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Frank SchlawinDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, USA.
Konstantin E Dorfman
Benjamin P Fingerhut
Shaul Mukamel

Funding

Multidimensional Femtosecond Correlation Spectroscopic Probes of BiomoleculesR01GM059230 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI MUKAMEL, SHAUL · 2001 to 2013
$3.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059230
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Entangled photons provide an important tool for secure quantum communication, computing and lithography. Low intensity requirements for multi-photon processes make them idealy suited for minimizing damage in imaging applications. Here we show how their unique temporal and spectral features may be used in nonlinear spectroscopy to reveal properties of multiexcitons in chromophore aggregates. Simulations demostrate that they provide unique control tools for two-exciton states in the bacterial reaction centre of Blastochloris viridis. Population transport in the intermediate single-exciton manifold may be suppressed by the absorption of photon pairs with short entanglement time, thus allowing the manipulation of the distribution of two-exciton states. The quantum nature of the light is essential for achieving this degree of control, which cannot be reproduced by stochastic or chirped light. Classical light is fundamentally limited by the frequency-time uncertainty, whereas entangled photons have independent temporal and spectral characteristics not subjected to this uncertainty.

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PMID23653194
PMCPMC3744249

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