We present an input/output analysis of photon-correlation experiments whereby a quantum mechanically entangled bi-photon state interacts with a material sample placed in one arm of a Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) apparatus. We show that the output signal contains detailed information about subsequent entanglement with the microscopic quantum states in the sample. In particular, we apply the method to an ensemble of emitters interacting with a common photon mode within the open-system Dicke Model. Our results indicate considerable dynamical information concerning spontaneous symmetry breaking can be revealed with such an experimental system. arXiv:1707.03304v1 [quant-ph]
The exciton scattering (ES) method allows efficient calculations of spectroscopic observables in large low-dimensional conjugated molecular systems. To compute the transition dipoles between the ground and excited electronic states, we should extract the ES dipole parameters from quantum chemistry calculations in simple molecular fragments. In this manuscript, we show how to retrieve these parameters from any reference quantum chemistry model that uses an arbitrary nonorthogonal and possibly overcomplete atomic orbital basis set. Our approach relies on the natural atomic orbital (NAO) representation, in which the basis functions are orthonormal and the atom-like character is preserved. We apply the ES approach, combined with the NAO analysis to optical spectra of branched phenylacetylene oligomers. Absorption spectra predicted by the ES method demonstrate close agreement with the results of direct quantum chemistry calculations, when the Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) being used as a reference. This testifies applicability of a variety of quantum-chemical techniques, where the NAO population analysis can be conducted, for the ES framework.
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