Photon entanglement-enhanced multidimensional spectroscopy of exciton correlations in photosynthetic aggregates

Abstract

Nonlinear spectroscopic techniques using entangled photon pairs can provide an opportunity to exploit non-classical correlations encoded in two-photon wave functions to manipulate two-exciton wave functions. We propose an entangled photon pair-enhanced multidimensional spectroscopic technique that is sensitive to exciton–exciton interactions and correlations at the femtosecond timescale. Simulations for a dissipative system, namely, the photosynthetic aggregate, reveal the superior ability of entangled photon pairs, compared to both transform-limited and frequency-chirped laser pulses, to manipulate excited-state absorption pathways. The corresponding spectral features in the two-dimensional spectrogram are interpreted in terms of one- and two-exciton resonances. The signal scales linearly with the incoming intensity of the photon sources. We show that classifying these resonances using an entangled photon source in the perturbative limit allows for probing exciton correlations at the natural energy scale. These insights can be used to explore multi-exciton dynamics in molecular systems using multiphoton entanglement.