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| Dec. 13, 2024
Global Decoherence in entangled triplet exciton pairs
A condensed matter equivalent of the entangled photon pairs popular in quantum information science is a pair of spin-entangled exciton in a semiconductor. In organic semiconductors in particular, it is possible to generate such pairs when a photoexcited states (of spin 0) decays into two excitons, each with spin 1, but entangled to have an overall spin of 0. A theoretical model for the effect of exciton transport on the global coherence of a population of such exciton pairs and how this global coherence can be precisely tuned by an applied magnetic field has been recently developed and demonstrated experimentally in rubrene single crystals.