Ultrafast exciton-exciton coherent transfer in molecular aggregates and its application to light-harvesting systems.
Effects of the exciton-exciton coherence transfer (EECT) in strongly coupled molecular aggregates are investigated from the reduced time-evolution equation which we have developed to describe EECT. Starting with the nonlinear response function, we obtained explicit contributions from EECT to four-wave-mixing spectrum such as photon echo, taking into account double exciton states, static disorder, and heat-bath coupling represented by arbitrary spectral densities. By using the doorway-window picture and the projection operator technique, the transfer rates between two different electronic coherent states are obtained within a framework of cumulant expansion at high temperature. Applications of the present theory to strongly coupled B850 chlorophylls in the photosynthetic light harvesting system II (LH2) are discussed. It is shown that EECT is indispensable in properly describing ultrafast phenomena of strongly coupled molecular aggregates such as LH2 and that the EECT contribution to the two-dimensional optical spectroscopy is not negligible.
Hyeon-Deuk
Kim
K
Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. kim@kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Tanimura
Yoshitaka
Y
Cho
Minheang
M
D001429:Bacteriochlorophylls / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism / Q000528:radiation effects; D004583:Electrons; D004735:Energy Transfer; D008027:Light; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000528:radiation effects*; D017785:Photons; D010788:Photosynthesis; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism / Q000528:radiation effects; D013053:Spectrophotometry; D013997:Time Factors
D001429:Bacteriochlorophylls; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins