Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Studying light-harvesting models with superconducting circuits

  • Anton Potočnik,
  • Arno Bargerbos,
  • Florian A. Y. N. Schröder,
  • Saeed A. Khan,
  • Michele C. Collodo,
  • Simone Gasparinetti,
  • Yves Salathé,
  • Celestino Creatore,
  • Christopher Eichler,
  • Hakan E. Türeci,
  • Alex W. Chin,
  • Andreas Wallraff

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03312-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Investigating photosynthesis processes in biological samples is challenging due to their complex and disordered structure. Based on analog quantum simulations with superconducting quantum circuits, the authors show how the interplay of quantum coherence and environmental interactions affects energy transport.