The influence of ultrafast laser pulses on electron transfer in molecular wires studied by a non-Markovian density-matrix approach

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Welack, Sven ^a   Schreiber, Michael ^a   Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR WIRES; QUANTUM MASTER EQUATION; TIME-DEPENDENT LASER FIELDS;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 31544450299     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2162537     Document Type: Article

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