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Simulation of non-radiative energy transfer in photosynthetic systems using a quantum computer

arXiv
Authors: José Diogo Guimarães, Carlos Tavares, Luís Soares Barbosa, Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

Year

2020

Paper ID

21005

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Preprint

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Photosynthesis is an important and complex physical process in nature, whose comprehensive understanding would have many relevant industrial applications, for instance in the field of energy production. In this paper we propose a quantum algorithm for the simulation of the excitonic transport of energy, occurring in the first stage of the process of photosynthesis. The algorithm takes in account the quantum and environmental effects (pure-dephasing), influencing the quantum transport. We performed quantum simulations of such phenomena, for a proof of concept scenario, in an actual quantum computer the IBM Q, of 5 qubits. We validate the results with the Haken-Ströbl model and discuss the influence of environmental parameters on the efficiency of the energy transport.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:2009.01283 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01283 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01283

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