title: Solitonic energy transfer in a coupled exciton-vibron system
abstract: We consider the exciton transfer along a one-dimensional molecular chain. The exciton motion is influenced by longitudinal vibrations evolving in a Toda lattice potential. It is shown how the soliton solutions of the vibron system coupled to the exciton system induce solitonic exciton transfer. To this aim the existence of a regime of suppressed energy exchange between the coupled excitonic and vibrational degrees of freedom is established in the case of which a nonlinear Schrodinger equation for the exciton variable is derived. The nonlinear Schrodinger equation possesses soliton solutions corresponding to coherent transfer of the localized exciton.
authors.affiliation: Freie Universitat Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hennig