Energy transfer, entanglement and decoherence in a molecular dimer interacting with a phonon bath

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hossein Nejad, Hoda ^a   Scholes, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; DECOHERENCE; DEPHASING; DEPHASING RATES; EIGENSTATES; ELECTRONIC COUPLING; LONG LASTING; MOLECULAR DIMERS; NATURAL BASIS; PHONON BATHS; PHOTON ECHOES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC LIGHT; SYSTEM-BATH COUPLING;

ENERGY TRANSFER; HAMILTONIANS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

PHONONS;

EID: 77955077550     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/6/065045     Document Type: Article

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