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Pouthier V. Two-exciton bound state quantum self-trapping in an extended star graph. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:155101. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0087200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The attractive Bose-Hubbard model is applied for describing the quantum self-trapping in an extended star graph. In the strong coupling limit and when two excitons are created on the core of the star, the dynamics is dominated by pair states whose properties is governed by the branch number $N$. When $N=2$, the star reduces to a linear chain so that the energy does not self-localize. Conversely, when $N\geq3$, a restructuring of the eigenstates arises and a low-energy state occurs describing a pair localized on the core of the star. Preferentially excited, this localized state gives rise to a quantum self-trapping of the energy, a process that intensifies as $N$ increases.
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Pouthier V. A qubit coupled with confined phonons: the interplay between true and fake decoherence. J Chem Phys 2013; 139:054103. [PMID: 23927239 DOI: 10.1063/1.4817303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The decoherence of a qubit coupled with the phonons of a finite-size lattice is investigated. The confined phonons no longer behave as a reservoir. They remain sensitive to the qubit so that the origin of the decoherence is twofold. First, a qubit-phonon entanglement yields an incomplete true decoherence. Second, the qubit renormalizes the phonon frequency resulting in fake decoherence when a thermal average is performed. To account for the initial thermalization of the lattice, the qua- ntum Langevin theory is applied so that the phonons are viewed as an open system coupled with a thermal bath of harmonic oscillators. Consequently, it is shown that the finite lifetime of the phonons does not modify fake decoherence but strongly affects true decoherence. Depending on the values of the model parameters, the interplay between fake and true decoherence yields a very rich dynamics with various regimes.
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- Vincent Pouthier
- Institut UTINAM, Université de Franche-Comté, CNRS UMR 6213, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France.
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Pouthier V. The reduced dynamics of an exciton coupled to a phonon bath: A new approach combining the Lang-Firsov transformation and the perturbation theory. J Chem Phys 2013; 138:044108. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4789017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Pouthier V. Vibrons in finite size molecular lattices: a route for high-fidelity quantum state transfer at room temperature. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2012; 24:445401. [PMID: 23044492 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/44/445401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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A communication protocol is proposed in which vibron-mediated quantum state transfer takes place in a molecular lattice. We consider two distant molecular groups grafted on each side of the lattice. These groups form two quantum computers where vibrational qubits are implemented and received. The lattice defines the communication channel along which a vibron delocalizes and interacts with a phonon bath. Using quasi-degenerate perturbation theory, vibron-phonon entanglement is taken into account through the effective Hamiltonian concept. A vibron is thus dressed by a virtual phonon cloud whereas a phonon is clothed by virtual vibronic transitions. It is shown that three quasi-degenerate dressed states define the relevant paths followed by a vibron to tunnel between the computers. When the coupling between the computers and the lattice is judiciously chosen, constructive interference takes place between these paths. Phonon-induced decoherence is minimized and a high-fidelity quantum state transfer occurs over a broad temperature range.
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- Vincent Pouthier
- Institut UTINAM, Université de Franche-Comté, UMR CNRS 6213, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France.
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Pouthier V. Energy transfer in finite-size exciton-phonon systems: Confinement-enhanced quantum decoherence. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:114702. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4753969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Braatz CR, Öhl G, Jakob P. Vibrational properties of the compressed and the relaxed 1,4,5,8-naphthalene-tetracarboxylic dianhydride monolayer on Ag(111). J Chem Phys 2012; 136:134706. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3699030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Based on the operatorial formulation of the perturbation theory, the properties of a confined exciton coupled with phonons in thermal equilibrium is revisited. Within this method, the dynamics is governed by an effective Hamiltonian which accounts for exciton-phonon entanglement. The exciton is dressed by a virtual phonon cloud whereas the phonons are clothed by virtual excitonic transitions. Special attention is thus paid for describing the time evolution of the excitonic coherences at finite temperature. As in an infinite lattice, temperature-enhanced quantum decoherence takes place. However, it is shown that the confinement softens the decoherence. The coherences are very sensitive to the excitonic states so that the closer to the band center the state is located, the slower the coherence decays. In particular, for odd lattice sizes, the coherence between the vacuum state and the one-exciton state exactly located at the band center survives over an extremely long time scale. A superimposition involving the vacuum and this specific one-exciton state behaves as an ideal qubit insensitive to its environment.
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- Vincent Pouthier
- Institut UTINAM, Université de Franche-Comté, CNRS UMR 6213, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France.
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Pouthier V. Parametric resonance-induced time-convolutionless master equation breakdown in finite size exciton-phonon systems. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2010; 22:385401. [PMID: 21386551 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/38/385401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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A detailed analysis is performed to show that the second order time-convolutionless master equation fails to describe the exciton-phonon dynamics in a finite size lattice. To proceed, special attention is paid to characterizing the coherences of the exciton reduced density matrix. These specific elements measure the ability of the exciton to develop superimpositions involving the vacuum and the one-exciton states. It is shown that the coherences behave as wavefunctions whose dynamics is governed by a time-dependent effective Hamiltonian defined in terms of the so-called time-dependent relaxation operator. Due to the confinement, quantum recurrences provide to the relaxation operator an almost periodic nature, so the master equation reduces to a linear system of differential equations with almost periodic coefficients. We show that, in accordance with the Floquet theory, unstable solutions emerge due to parametric resonances involving specific frequencies of the relaxation operator and specific excitonic eigenfrequencies. These resonances give rise to an unphysical exponential growth of the coherences, indicating the breakdown of the second order master equation.
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- Vincent Pouthier
- Institut UTINAM, Université de Franche-Comté, UMR CNRS 6213, 25030 Besançon cedex, France.
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Tremblay B, Manceron L. Evaluation of CO Coordination Energies from Spectroscopic Data: On the Use of Vibrational Isotopic Effects. Inorg Chem 2008; 47:4531-5. [DOI: 10.1021/ic701960t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Benoît Tremblay
- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, Laboratoire de Dynamique, Interactions et Réactivité, UMR 7075, Case Courrier 49, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, Cedex 05, France
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- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, Laboratoire de Dynamique, Interactions et Réactivité, UMR 7075, Case Courrier 49, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, Cedex 05, France
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Pouthier V, Falvo C. Relaxation channels of two-vibron bound states in alpha-helix proteins. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2004; 69:041906. [PMID: 15169042 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.69.041906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Relaxation channels for two-vibron bound states in an anharmonic alpha-helix protein are studied. According to a recently established small polaron model [V. Pouthier, Phys. Rev. E 68, 021909 (2003)], it is shown that the relaxation originates in the interaction between the dressed anharmonic vibrons and the remaining phonons. This interaction is responsible for the occurrence of transitions between two-vibron eigenstates mediated by both phonon absorption and phonon emission. At biological temperature, the relaxation rate does not significantly depend on the nature of the two-vibron states involved in the process. The lifetime for both bound and free states is of the same order of magnitude and ranges between 0.1 and 1.0 ps for realistic parameter values. By contrast, the relaxation channels strongly depend on the nature of the two-vibron states which is a consequence of the breatherlike behavior of the two-vibron bound states.
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- V Pouthier
- Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire, UMR CNRS 6624, Faculté des Sciences - La Bouloie, Université de Franche-Comté, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
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Pouthier V. Two-vibron bound states in alpha-helix proteins: the interplay between the intramolecular anharmonicity and the strong vibron-phonon coupling. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2003; 68:021909. [PMID: 14525008 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.68.021909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The influence of the intramolecular anharmonicity and the strong vibron-phonon coupling on the two-vibron dynamics in an alpha-helix protein is studied within a modified Davydov model. The intramolecular anharmonicity of each amide-I vibration is considered, and the vibron dynamics is described according to the small polaron approach. A unitary transformation is performed to remove the intramolecular anharmonicity, and a modified Lang-Firsov transformation is applied to renormalize the vibron-phonon interaction. Then a mean field procedure is realized to obtain the dressed anharmonic vibron Hamiltonian. It is shown that the anharmonicity modifies the vibron-phonon interaction, which results in an enhancement of the dressing effect. In addition, both the anharmonicity and the dressing favor the occurrence of two different bound states whose properties strongly depend on the interplay between the anharmonicity and the dressing. This dependence was summarized in a phase diagram which characterizes the number and the nature of the bound states as a function of the relevant parameters of the problem. For a significant anharmonicity, the low-frequency bound states describe two vibrons trapped onto the same amide-I vibration, whereas the high-frequency bound states refer to the trapping of the two vibrons onto nearest neighbor amide-I vibrations.
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- V Pouthier
- Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire, UMR CNRS 6624, Faculté des Sciences, La Boúloie, Université de Franche-Comté, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
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Pouthier V. Two-vibron bound states in CO/Ru(001): An effective Hamiltonian approach. J Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1568731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Pouthier V. Two-vibron bound states lifetime in a one-dimensional molecular lattice coupled to acoustic phonons. J Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1539865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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