Electronic coherence dynamics in trans-polyacetylene oligomers

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Franco, Ignacio ^a,c   Brumer, Paul ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED DYNAMICS; DECOHERENCE; DECOHERENCE TIME SCALE; ELECTRONIC COHERENCE; FEMTOSECONDS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MEAN-FIELD; MOLECULAR POLARIZATION; OFF-DIAGONAL ELEMENTS; OVERLAP FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM-CLASSICAL; REDUCED-DENSITY MATRIX; TIME DEPENDENT; TIME-SCALES; TRANS-POLYACETYLENE; VIBRATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; VIBRONIC INTERACTIONS; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION;

ACETYLENE; DYNAMICS; ELECTRONIC STATES; OLIGOMERS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84859991824     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3700445     Document Type: Article

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