Optimally Designed Quantum Transport across Disordered Networks

Mattia Walschaers, Jorge Fernández-de-Cossio-Díaz, Roberto Mulet, Andreas Buchleitner

Physical Review Letters · 2013 · 60 citations · 34 references

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We establish a general mechanism for highly efficient quantum transport through finite, disordered 3D networks. It relies on the interplay of disorder with centrosymmetry and a dominant doublet spectral structure and can be controlled by the proper tuning of only coarse-grained quantities. Photosynthetic light harvesting complexes are discussed as potential biological incarnations of this design principle.

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