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Observation of an Excitonic Quantum Coherence in CdSe Nanocrystals
(2015-10-01)
Dong, Shuo
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Trivedi, Dhara
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Chakrabortty, Sabyasachi
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Kobayashi, Takayoshi
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Chan, Yinthai
Recent observations of excitonic coherences within photosynthetic complexes suggest that quantum coherences could enhance biological light harvesting efficiencies. Here, we employ optical pump-probe spectroscopy with few-femtosecond pulses to observe an excitonic quantum coherence in CdSe nanocrystals, a prototypical artificial light harvesting system. This coherence, which encodes the high-speed migration of charge over nanometer length scales, is also found to markedly alter the displacement amplitudes of phonons, signaling dynamics in the non-Born-Oppenheimer regime.