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ArticleScience advances2026

Two-dimensional fluorescence spectroscopy with entangled photons and time- and frequency-resolved two-photon coincidence detection.

Yuta Fujihashi, Ozora Iso, Ryosuke Shimizu, Akihito Ishizaki

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Yuta FujihashiDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2201-269X
Ozora IsoDepartment of Engineering Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu 182-8585, Japan.ORCID 0009-0006-7434-6751
Ryosuke ShimizuDepartment of Engineering Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu 182-8585, Japan.ORCID 0009-0008-1715-0351
Akihito IshizakiDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0246-4461

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Abstract

Recent theoretical studies highlight how nonclassical photon correlations in entangled photon pairs can selectively address nonlinear optical pathways. However, the resulting signals are typically too weak for practical time-resolved experiments. Here, we propose two-dimensional (2D) time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy that exploits these correlations and operates with current single-photon detectors. The method provides two advantages over conventional 2D electronic spectroscopy: (i) It yields 2D spectra without phase-stable multipulse control, relying instead on heralded twin-photon correlations, and (ii) it simplifies spectra by isolating the contribution that is spectroscopically equivalent to stimulated emission, thereby suppressing ground-state bleaching and excited-state absorption. Numerical calculations for a natural pigment-protein complex-inspired trimer show that this pathway selectivity enables the extraction of rich information on energy transfer dynamics. These results indicate a feasible route to real-time observation of molecular dynamics using entangled photon pairs.

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