[HTML][HTML] Pursuing excitonic energy transfer with programmable DNA-based optical breadboards

D Mathur, SA Díaz, N Hildebrandt… - Chemical Society …, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
DNA nanotechnology has now enabled the self-assembly of almost any prescribed 3-
dimensional nanoscale structure in large numbers and with high fidelity. These structures …

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 …

Non-classicality of the molecular vibrations assisting exciton energy transfer at room temperature

EJ O'Reilly, A Olaya-Castro - Nature communications, 2014‏ - nature.com
Advancing the debate on quantum effects in light-initiated reactions in biology requires clear
identification of non-classical features that these processes can exhibit and utilize. Here we …

Photonics meets excitonics: natural and artificial molecular aggregates

SK Saikin, A Eisfeld, S Valleau, A Aspuru-Guzik - Nanophotonics, 2013‏ - degruyter.com
Organic molecules store the energy of absorbed light in the form of charge-neutral molecular
excitations–Frenkel excitons. Usually, in amorphous organic materials, excitons are viewed …

Ultrafast excitation energy transfer dynamics in photosynthetic pigment–protein complexes

T Renger, V May, O Kühn - Physics Reports, 2001‏ - Elsevier
Photosynthetically active membranes of certain bacteria and higher plants contain antenna
systems which surround the reaction center to increase its absorption cross section for the …

A quantum algorithm from response theory: Digital quantum simulation of two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

M Bruschi, F Gallina, B Fresch - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Multidimensional optical spectroscopies are powerful techniques to investigate energy
transfer pathways in natural and artificial systems. Because of the high information content of …

Exciton delocalization in indolenine squaraine aggregates templated by DNA holliday junction scaffolds

OA Mass, CK Wilson, SK Roy, MS Barclay… - The Journal of …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Exciton delocalization plays a prominent role in the photophysics of molecular aggregates,
ultimately governing their particular function or application. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a …

Pump–probe spectroscopy of dissipative energy transfer dynamics in photosynthetic antenna complexes: A density matrix approach

O Kühn, V Sundström - The Journal of chemical physics, 1997‏ - pubs.aip.org
The photoinduced ultrafast dynamics of singlet excitons in light-harvesting antennae is
investigated using multilevel Redfield theory. Formulating the equations of motion for the …

Large Davydov splitting and strong fluorescence suppression: an investigation of exciton delocalization in DNA-templated Holliday junction dye aggregates

BL Cannon, LK Patten, DL Kellis… - The Journal of …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Exciton delocalization in dye aggregate systems is a phenomenon that is revealed by
spectral features, such as Davydov splitting, J-and H-aggregate behavior, and fluorescence …

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 …