Vibration-assisted coherent excitation energy transfer in a detuned dimer

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/3/037105

Abstract

The important role of high-energy intramolecular vibrational modes for excitation energy transfer in the detuned photosynthetic systems is studied. Based on a basic dimer model which consists of two two-level systems (pigments) coupled to high-energy vibrational modes, we find that the high-energy intramolecular vibrational modes can enhance the energy transfer with new coherent transfer channels being opened when the phonon energy matches the detuning between the two pigments. As a result, the energy can be effectively transferred into the acceptor. The effective Hamiltonian is obtained to reveal the strong coherent energy exchange among the donor, the acceptor, and the high-energy intramolecular. A semi-classical explanation of the phonon-assisted mechanism is also shown.

Keywords: excitation energy transfer high-energy intramolecular vibrational motion dynamically resonant coherent transfer

Received: 05 August 2016
Revised: 21 November 2016
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PACS:	71.35.-y	(Excitons and related phenomena)
	03.65.Yz	(Decoherence; open systems; quantum statistical methods)
	63.50.-x	(Vibrational states in disordered systems)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11174233).

Corresponding Authors: Hong-rong Li
E-mail: hrli@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

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Xin Wang(王信), Hao Chen(陈浩), Chen-yu Li(李晨宇), Hong-rong Li(李宏荣) Vibration-assisted coherent excitation energy transfer in a detuned dimer 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 037105

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