Recent theoretical studies highlight how nonclassical photon correlations in entangled photon pairs can selectively address nonlinear optical pathways. However, the resulting signals are typically too weak for practical time-resolved experiments. Here, we propose two-dimensional (2D) time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy that exploits these correlations and operates with current single-photon detectors. The method provides two advantages over conventional 2D electronic spectroscopy: (i) It yields 2D spectra without phase-stable multipulse control, relying instead on heralded twin-photon correlations, and (ii) it simplifies spectra by isolating the contribution that is spectroscopically equivalent to stimulated emission, thereby suppressing ground-state bleaching and excited-state absorption. Numerical calculations for a natural pigment-protein complex–inspired trimer show that this pathway selectivity enables the extraction of rich information on energy transfer dynamics. These results indicate a feasible route to real-time observation of molecular dynamics using entangled photon pairs.
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