Controlling Highly-E icient,

Noise-Assisted Energy Transport

How Does Noise Enhance Coherent State Transfer?

Minh-Thi Nguyen
Princeton University, BA Physics 2021
Outline
- Background: Noise in Quantum Information
- Motivation: Photosynthetic Biological
Complexes
- Current Work
- Network Model: N-qubit network
- Probing Network in a Cavity
- Quantum Optimal Control
- Conclusions and Future Outlook
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Background
The most serious impediment
against realizing quantum
computers and networks is
decoherence

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Motivation: Light Harvesting Complexes
Over the past four billion
years, photosynthetic
complexes have evolved to
harvest available light
energy with nearly unitary
quantum efficiency

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Is Noise Good or Bad?
Fenna-Matthews-Olson
(FMO) complex
- Noise can enhance a
system response?

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The Network Model:
Excitation

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Irreversible
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Transfer; 99%
Efficiency 2
Reaction Center Excitation
Exchange
CO2 + 2HS2 6
+ Energy V63
3

CH2O + 2S 5
+ H2O 4

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Types of Noise
99.999%
efficiency

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 1
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Asymmetry of Network SINK

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Noise: Destructive Interference

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Probing System in Optical Cavity

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Quantum Optimal Control
2 Level Transfer using GRAPE

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Conclusions & Future Steps
- LHCs are highly efficient in energy transfer in
the presence of noise, esp local dephasing
- Future Steps:
1. Multipartite Entanglement Measure
2. Network in Optical Cavity
a. Is Noise still the main driver for efficiency?
b. Dark States
3. Control state transfer in cavity system
a. Generalize state transfer in presence of noisy environment
4. Formal approach for noise-assisted processes in an N-qubit
network
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Potential Applications
- Quantum communication / teleportation
- Secure information transfer / quantum
cryptography
- Solar cells / artificial photosynthetic systems for
energy conservation
- Quantum wires for scalable processor

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Questions?