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    Distinctive Signatures of the Spin- and Momentum-Forbidden Dark Exciton States in the Photoluminescence of Strained WSe2 Monolayers under Thermalization
    (2019-04-01)
    Peng, Guan-Hao
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    Lo, Ping-Yuan
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    Li, Wei-Hua
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    Huang, Yan-Chen
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    Chen, Yan-Hong
    With both spin and valley degrees of freedom, the low-lying excitonic spectra of photoexcited transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers (TMDC-MLs) are featured by rich fine structures, comprising the intravalley bright exciton states as well as various intra- and intervalley dark ones. The latter states can be classified as those of the spin- and momentum-forbidden dark excitons according to the violated optical selection rules. Because of their optical invisibility, these two types of the dark states are in principle hardly observed and even distinguished in conventional spectroscopies although their impacts on the optical and dynamical properties of TMDC-MLs have been well noticed. In this Letter, we present a theoretical and computational investigation of the exciton fine structures and the temperature-dependent photoluminescence spectra of strained tungsten diselenide monolayers (WSe2-MLs) where the intravalley spin-forbidden dark exciton lies in the lowest exciton states and other momentum-forbidden states are in the higher energies that are tunable by external stress. The numerical computations are carried out by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation for an exciton in a WSe2-ML under the stress-control in the tight-binding scheme established from the first principle computation in the density functional theory. According to the numerical computation and supportive model analysis, we reveal the distinctive signatures of the spin- and momentum-forbidden exciton states of strained WSe2-MLs in the temperature-dependent photoluminescences and present the guiding principle to infer the relative energetic locations of the two types of dark excitons.
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    Quantifying the nonclassicality of pure dephasing
    (2019-08-22)
    Chen, Hong-Bin
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    Lo, Ping-Yuan
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    Gneiting, Clemens
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    Bae, Joonwoo
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    Chen, Yueh-Nan
    One of the central problems in quantum theory is to characterize, detect, and quantify quantumness in terms of classical strategies. Dephasing processes, caused by non-dissipative information exchange between quantum systems and environments, provides a natural platform for this purpose, as they control the quantum-to-classical transition. Recently, it has been shown that dephasing dynamics itself can exhibit (non)classical traits, depending on the nature of the system-environment correlations and the related (im)possibility to simulate these dynamics with Hamiltonian ensembles-the classical strategy. Here we establish the framework of detecting and quantifying the nonclassicality for pure dephasing dynamics. The uniqueness of the canonical representation of Hamiltonian ensembles is shown, and a constructive method to determine the latter is presented. We illustrate our method for qubit, qutrit, and qubit-pair pure dephasing and describe how to implement our approach with quantum process tomography experiments. Our work is readily applicable to present-day quantum experiments.
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    Simulating Open Quantum Systems with Hamiltonian Ensembles and the Nonclassicality of the Dynamics
    (2018-01-19)
    Chen, Hong-Bin
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    Gneiting, Clemens
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    Lo, Ping-Yuan
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    Chen, Yueh-Nan
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    Nori, Franco
    The incoherent dynamical properties of open quantum systems are generically attributed to an ongoing correlation between the system and its environment. Here, we propose a novel way to assess the nature of these system-environment correlations by examining the system dynamics alone. Our approach is based on the possibility or impossibility to simulate open-system dynamics with Hamiltonian ensembles. As we show, such (im) possibility to simulate is closely linked to the system-environment correlations. We thus define the nonclassicality of open-system dynamics in terms of the nonexistence of a Hamiltonian-ensemble simulation. This classifies any nonunital open-system dynamics as nonclassical. We give examples for open-system dynamics that are unital and classical, as well as unital and nonclassical.
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