Clustered geometries exploiting quantum coherence effects for efficient energy transfer in light harvesting

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 2577-2584

  Ai, Qing ^a   Yen, Tzu Chi ^a   Jin, Bih Yaw ^a   Cheng, Yuan Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

coherent modified Redfield theory; energy transfer network; excitation energy transfer; light harvesting; non Markovian quantum trajectory method; quantum coherence

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENT ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LIGHT-HARVESTING SYSTEMS; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM COHERENCE EFFECTS; QUANTUM TRAJECTORIES; REDFIELD THEORY; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DESIGN; EXCITATION ENERGY; GEOMETRY; HARVESTING; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

EID: 84881296276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz4011477     Document Type: Article

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