7 research outputs found
Energy-scales convergence for optimal and robust quantum transport in photosynthetic complexes
Underlying physical principles for the high efficiency of excitation energy
transfer in light-harvesting complexes are not fully understood. Notably, the
degree of robustness of these systems for transporting energy is not known
considering their realistic interactions with vibrational and radiative
environments within the surrounding solvent and scaffold proteins. In this
work, we employ an efficient technique to estimate energy transfer efficiency
of such complex excitonic systems. We observe that the dynamics of the
Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex leads to optimal and robust energy transport
due to a convergence of energy scales among all important internal and external
parameters. In particular, we show that the FMO energy transfer efficiency is
optimum and stable with respect to the relevant parameters of environmental
interactions and Frenkel-exciton Hamiltonian including reorganization energy
, bath frequency cutoff , temperature , bath spatial
correlations, initial excitations, dissipation rate, trapping rate, disorders,
and dipole moments orientations. We identify the ratio of \lambda T/\gamma\*g
as a single key parameter governing quantum transport efficiency, where g is
the average excitonic energy gap.Comment: minor revisions, removing some figures, 19 pages, 19 figure
Density-functional fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions
We propose a new approach to quantum phase transitions in terms of the
density-functional fidelity, which measures the similarity between density
distributions of two ground states in parameter space. The key feature of the
approach, as we will show, is that the density-functional fidelity can be
measured easily in experiments. Both the validity and versatility of the
approach are checked by the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model and the one-dimensional
Hubbard model.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Chin. Phys. Let
Fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions
We review briefly the quantum fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions
in a pedagogical manner. We try to relate all established but scattered results
on the leading term of the fidelity into a systematic theoretical framework,
which might provide an alternative paradigm for understanding quantum critical
phenomena. The definition of the fidelity and the scaling behavior of its
leading term, as well as their explicit applications to the one-dimensional
transverse-field Ising model and the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model, are introduced
at the graduate-student level. In addition, we survey also other types of
fidelity approach, such as the fidelity per site, reduced fidelity,
thermal-state fidelity, operator fidelity, etc; as well as relevant works on
the fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions occurring in various
many-body systems.Comment: 41 pages, 31 figures. We apologize if we omit acknowledging your
relevant works. Do tell. An updated version with clearer figures can be found
at: http://www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/~sjgu/fidelitynote.pd