Noise-Assisted Discord-Like Correlations in Light-Harvesting Photosynthetic Complexes
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Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-543, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico
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Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Calle Luis Enrique Erro 1, Sta. Ma. Tonantzintla, Puebla 72840, Mexico
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Quantum Rep. 2021, 3(2), 262-271; https://doi.org/10.3390/quantum3020016
Received: 15 March 2021
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Revised: 5 April 2021
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Accepted: 12 April 2021
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Published: 15 April 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Quantum Biology)
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 efficient due to the balance between coherent quantum evolution and decoherence, a phenomenon coined Environment-Assisted Quantum Transport (ENAQT). Although this effect has been extensively studied, its behavior is typically described in terms of the decoherence’s strength, namely weak, moderate or strong. Here, we study the ENAQT in terms of quantum correlations that go beyond entanglement. Using a subsystem of the Fenna–Matthews–Olson complex, we find that discord-like correlations maximize when the subsystem’s transport efficiency increases, while the entanglement between sites vanishes. Our results suggest that quantum discord is a manifestation of the ENAQT and highlight the importance of beyond-entanglement correlations in photosynthetic energy transport processes.
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Reséndiz-Vázquez, P.; Román-Ancheyta, R.; de J. León-Montiel, R. Noise-Assisted Discord-Like Correlations in Light-Harvesting Photosynthetic Complexes. Quantum Rep. 2021, 3, 262-271. https://doi.org/10.3390/quantum3020016
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Reséndiz-Vázquez P, Román-Ancheyta R, de J. León-Montiel R. Noise-Assisted Discord-Like Correlations in Light-Harvesting Photosynthetic Complexes. Quantum Reports. 2021; 3(2):262-271. https://doi.org/10.3390/quantum3020016
Chicago/Turabian StyleReséndiz-Vázquez, Pablo, Ricardo Román-Ancheyta, and Roberto de J. León-Montiel. 2021. "Noise-Assisted Discord-Like Correlations in Light-Harvesting Photosynthetic Complexes" Quantum Reports 3, no. 2: 262-271. https://doi.org/10.3390/quantum3020016
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