Exciton-vibrational coupling in the dynamics and spectroscopy of Frenkel excitons in molecular aggregates

Physics Reports

Volumn 567, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-78

  Schroter M ^a   Ivanov, S D ^a   Schulze, J ^a   Polyutov, S P ^a,b   Yan, Y ^c   Pullerits, T ^d   Kuhn O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c GUIZHOU EDUCATION UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Frenkel excitons; Molecular aggregates; Nonlinear spectroscopy; Open quantum systems; Vibronic excitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923448014     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2014.12.001     Document Type: Review

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