Enhancing coherent transport in a photonic network using controllable decoherence

@article{Biggerstaff2015EnhancingCT,
  title={Enhancing coherent transport in a photonic network using controllable decoherence},
  author={Devon N. Biggerstaff and Ren'e Heilmann and Aidan A Zecevik and Markus Gr{\"a}fe and Matthew A. Broome and Alessandro Fedrizzi and Stefan Nolte and Alexander Szameit and Andrew G. White and Ivan Kassal},
  journal={Nature Communications},
  year={2015},
  volume={7}
}
Transport phenomena on a quantum scale appear in a variety of systems, ranging from photosynthetic complexes to engineered quantum devices. It has been predicted that the efficiency of coherent transport can be enhanced through dynamic interaction between the system and a noisy environment. We report an experimental simulation of environment-assisted coherent transport, using an engineered network of laser-written waveguides, with relative energies and inter-waveguide couplings tailored to… 
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