Vibronic origin of long-lived coherence in an artificial molecular light harvester

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lim, James ^a   Palecek, David ^b,c   Caycedo Soler, Felipe ^a   Lincoln, Craig N ^d   Prior, Javier ^e   Von Berlepsch, Hans ^f   Huelga, Susana F ^a   Plenio, Martin B ^a   Zigmantas, Donatas ^b   Hauer, Jürgen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE; ELECTRON; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NOISE; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VIBRATION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; COHERENT EXCITON VIBRATIONAL COUPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; EXCITATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULE; NOISE; OSCILLATION; POLARIZATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIBRONIC COUPLING;

EID: 84937019662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8755     Document Type: Article

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