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Selective Vibronic Excitation for Coherent Energy Transport in Photosynthetic and Agrivoltaic Systems
Steve Cabrel Teguia Kouam1, Theodore Goumai Vedekoi2, Jean-Pierre Tchapet Njafa2
1Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon.
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Partitioning the photonic environment into resonant and off-resonant modes provides a mechanism for dephasing suppression in photosynthetic energy transfer. Aligning the excitation spectrum with underdamped vibronic resonances in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex prepares vibronically dressed states with reduced coupling to dissipative fluctuations, inducing a biexponential coherence decay: a rapid initial dephasing (τfast ≈ 37 fs) followed by persistent interband coherences extending beyond 1 ps─a >3 time extension of the effective coherence window relative to broadband excitation (τc = 280 fs). This improves forward transfer yields by 39% at 295 K. PT-HOPS/SBD simulations establish that dual-band filtering at 750 and 820 nm targets vibronic resonances while bypassing dephasing-dominated noise. This enhancement is robust against static disorder (σ = 50 cm-1), with an ensemble-averaged increase of η = 0.39(4). These results identify selective vibronic excitation as a foundational design principle for coherence-assisted transport. This framework extends to symbiotic agrivoltaic systems, where organic photovoltaics function as active spectral filters to co-optimize excitonic transport alongside the photosynthetic requirements of underlying crops.
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