Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Enhancing coherent transport in a photonic network using controllable decoherence

  • Devon N. Biggerstaff,
  • René Heilmann,
  • Aidan A. Zecevik,
  • Markus Gräfe,
  • Matthew A. Broome,
  • Alessandro Fedrizzi,
  • Stefan Nolte,
  • Alexander Szameit,
  • Andrew G. White,
  • Ivan Kassal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11282
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The efficiency of coherent transport can be enhanced through interaction between the system and a noisy environment. Here, Biggerstaff et al. report an experimental simulation of environment assisted coherent transport using laser-written waveguides, showing that controllable decoherence yields an increase in transport efficiency.