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Volume 110, Number 4, May 2015
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| Article Number | 40002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/110/40002 | |
| Published online | 01 June 2015 | |
Thermally activated nonlocal amplification in quantum energy transport
1 Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), UMR 5221 CNRS- Université de Montpellier - F- 34095 Montpellier, France
2 Institut Universitaire de France - 103 Boulevard Saint- Michel, F-75005 Paris, France
Received: 18 March 2015
Accepted: 12 May 2015
We study energy-transport efficiency in light-harvesting planar and 3D complexes of two-level atomic quantum systems, embedded in a common thermal black-body radiation. We show that the collective non-local dissipation induced by the thermal bath plays a fundamental role in energy transport. It gives rise to a dramatic enhancement of the energy-transport efficiency, which may largely overcome 100%. This effect, which improves the understanding of transport phenomena in experimentally relevant complexes, suggests a particularly promising mechanism for quantum energy management.
PACS: 05.60.Gg – Quantum transport / 44.40.+a – Thermal radiation / 71.35.-y – Excitons and related phenomena
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