Electronic double-quantum coherences and their impact on ultrafast spectroscopy: The example of β-carotene

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 3366-3370

  Christensson, Niklas ^a   Milota, Franz ^a,b   Nemeth, Alexandra ^a   Pugliesi, Igor ^b   Riedle, Eberhard ^b   Sperling, Jaroslaw ^a   Pullerits, Tõnu ^c   Kauffmann, Harald F ^a,d   Hauer, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DAMPED OSCILLATIONS; DOUBLE-QUANTUM; ENERGY LEVEL STRUCTURES; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LINE SHAPE; MOLECULAR POLARIZATION; OPTICAL POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PHOTO-INDUCED; PUMP-AND-PROBE; PUMP-PROBE; SPECTRAL DIMENSIONS; THIRD-ORDER; TRANSITION ENERGY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CORRELATION; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS; ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY;

EXCITED STATES; OPTICAL CORRELATION; POLARIZATION; PROBES; PUMPS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649932563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz101409r     Document Type: Article

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