Exciton diffusion length in complex quantum systems: The effects of disorder and environmental fluctuations on symmetry-enhanced supertransfer

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1972, 2012, Pages 3750-3770

  Abasto, D F ^a   Mohseni, M ^b,c   Lloyd, S ^d   Zanardi, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c Research Laboratory of Electronics   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Dephasing; Diffusion; Excitons; Quantum dynamics; Superradiance; Supertransfer

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; EXCITONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERRADIANCE;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BALLISTIC REGIME; CLASSICAL SCALING; COMPLEX QUANTUM SYSTEMS; DEPHASING; DEPHASING EFFECTS; DIFFUSION LENGTH; ENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; GEOMETRICAL SYMMETRIES; QUANTUM DYNAMICS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL; STATIC DISORDER; SUPERTRANSFER; SYMMETRIC COUPLING; SYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; TRANSFER RATES;

DIFFUSION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84863702450     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0213     Document Type: Article

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