Non-Markovian stochastic Schrödinger description of transport in quantum networks

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  De Vega, Inés ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINGER EQUATION; EXCITATION TRANSFER; LIGHT-HARVESTING; NON-MARKOVIAN; NON-MARKOVIAN EFFECTS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC SYSTEMS; QUANTUM NETWORK; REACTION CENTRES; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM; WEAK COUPLINGS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 83655193107     PISSN: 09534075     EISSN: 13616455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/44/24/245501     Document Type: Article

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