Coherent exciton dynamics in supramolecular light-harvesting nanotubes revealed by ultrafast quantum process tomography

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5527-5534

  Yuen Zhou, Joel ^a   Arias, Dylan H ^a   Eisele, Dorthe M ^a   Steiner, Colby P ^a   Krich, Jacob J ^b   Bawendi, Moungi G ^a   Nelson, Keith A ^a   Aspuru Guzik, Alán ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

energy transfer; exciton coherence; nonlinear optics; open quantum system; quantum process tomography; supramolecular aggregates; ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTS; NANOTUBES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRONIC COUPLING; EXCITON TRANSPORT; OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS; QUANTUM PROCESS TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTROSCOPIC SIGNALS; SUPRAMOLECULAR AGGREGATES; TRANSIENT GRATING; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES;

EXCITONS;

EID: 84903485885     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406107q     Document Type: Article

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