Expanded theory of H-and J-molecular aggregates: the effects of vibronic coupling and intermolecular charge transfer

NJ Hestand, FC Spano - Chemical reviews, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
The electronic excited states of molecular aggregates and their photophysical signatures
have long fascinated spectroscopists and theoreticians alike since the advent of Frenkel …

Exciton–vibrational coupling in the dynamics and spectroscopy of Frenkel excitons in molecular aggregates

M Schröter, SD Ivanov, J Schulze, SP Polyutov, Y Yan… - Physics Reports, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The influence of exciton–vibrational coupling on the optical and transport properties of
molecular aggregates is an old problem that gained renewed interest in recent years. On the …

Perspectives in dye chemistry: a rational approach toward functional materials by understanding the aggregate state

D Bialas, E Kirchner, MIS Röhr… - Journal of the American …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
The past 20 years have witnessed a renaissance of dye chemistry, moving from traditional
colorant research toward functional materials. Different from traditional colorant research …

Origin of long-lived coherences in light-harvesting complexes

N Christensson, HF Kauffmann… - The Journal of …, 2012‏ - ACS Publications
A vibronic exciton model is applied to explain the long-lived oscillatory features in the two-
dimensional (2D) electronic spectra of the Fenna–Matthews–Olson (FMO) complex. Using …

Quantum phase synchronization via exciton-vibrational energy dissipation sustains long-lived coherence in photosynthetic antennas

R Zhu, W Li, Z Zhen, J Zou, G Liao, J Wang… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The lifetime of electronic coherences found in photosynthetic antennas is known to be too
short to match the energy transfer time, rendering the coherent energy transfer mechanism …

Vibronic mixing enables ultrafast energy flow in light-harvesting complex II

EA Arsenault, Y Yoneda, M Iwai, KK Niyogi… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Since the discovery of quantum beats in the two-dimensional electronic spectra of
photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes over a decade ago, the origin and mechanistic …

Enhancement of vibronic and ground-state vibrational coherences in 2D spectra of photosynthetic complexes

A Chenu, N Christensson, HF Kauffmann, T Mančal - Scientific reports, 2013‏ - nature.com
A vibronic-exciton model is applied to investigate the recently proposed mechanism of
enhancement of coherent oscillations due to mixing of electronic and nuclear degrees of …

Quantum coherences reveal excited-state dynamics in biophysical systems

L Wang, MA Allodi, GS Engel - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019‏ - nature.com
Ultrafast, multi-dimensional spectroscopic measurements of photosynthetic light-harvesting
complexes have revealed quantum coherences with timescales comparable to those of …

Multi-layer multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH) approach to the correlated exciton-vibrational dynamics in the FMO complex

J Schulze, MF Shibl, MJ Al-Marri, O Kühn - The Journal of chemical …, 2016‏ - pubs.aip.org
The coupled quantum dynamics of excitonic and vibrational degrees of freedom is
investigated for high-dimensional models of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex. This …

Coherent exciton delocalization in a two-state DNA-templated dye aggregate system

BL Cannon, DL Kellis, LK Patten… - The Journal of …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Coherent exciton delocalization in dye aggregate systems gives rise to a variety of intriguing
optical phenomena, including J-and H-aggregate behavior and Davydov splitting. Systems …