Absence of interference in photoexcitation of triplets.
Kinetics of growth and decay of triplet states of molecules at known orientation in a magnetic field have been measured. Amplitudes of the zero field eigenstates in each of the eigenstates at finite field were varied by choice of orientation. No interference between the amplitudes of the zero field states was found in the observed kinetics. It is concluded that excitations into the individual zero field components proceed via independent channels.
Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130.
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