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 …

Normal mode analysis of the spectral density of the Fenna–Matthews–Olson light-harvesting protein: how the protein dissipates the excess energy of excitons

T Renger, A Klinger, F Steinecker… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We report a method for the structure-based calculation of the spectral density of the pigment–
protein coupling in light-harvesting complexes that combines normal-mode analysis with the …

How the molecular structure determines the flow of excitation energy in plant light-harvesting complex II

T Renger, ME Madjet, A Knorr, F Müh - Journal of plant physiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Excitation energy transfer in the light-harvesting complex II of higher plants is modeled using
excitonic couplings and local transition energies determined from structure-based …

Refinement of a structural model of a pigment− protein complex by accurate optical line shape theory and experiments

T Renger, I Trostmann, C Theiss… - The Journal of …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Time-local and time-nonlocal theories are used in combination with optical spectroscopy to
characterize the water-soluble chlorophyll binding protein complex (WSCP) from cauliflower …

Optical signatures of Förster-induced energy transfer in organic/TMD heterostructures

JJP Thompson, M Gerhard, G Witte… - npj 2D Materials and …, 2023 - nature.com
Hybrid van der Waals heterostructures of organic semiconductors and transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising candidates for various optoelectronic devices, such …

Towards an exact theory of linear absorbance and circular dichroism of pigment-protein complexes: Importance of non-secular contributions

TC Dinh, T Renger - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
A challenge for the theory of optical spectra of pigment-protein complexes is the equal
strength of the pigment-pigment and the pigment-protein couplings. Treating both on an …

Enhanced tempo algorithm for quantum path integrals with off-diagonal system-bath coupling: Applications to photonic quantum networks

M Richter, S Hughes - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Multitime system correlation functions are relevant in various areas of physics and science,
dealing with system-bath interaction including spectroscopy and quantum optics, where …

Quantum kinetic theory of phonon-assisted excitation transfer in quantum dot molecules

E Rozbicki, P Machnikowski - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
We present a quantum-kinetic theory of the excitation transfer in a quantum dot molecule.
We derive the consistent Markovian limit for the system kinetics, which leads to a description …

Theory of optically induced Förster coupling in van der Waals coupled heterostructures

M Selig, E Malic, KJ Ahn, N Koch, A Knorr - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We investigate the impact of optically induced Förster coupling in van der Waals
heterostructures consisting of graphene and a monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide …

Formation dynamics of an entangled photon pair: a temperature-dependent analysis

A Carmele, F Milde, MR Dachner, MB Harouni… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We theoretically study the polarization entanglement of photons generated by the biexciton
cascade in a GaAs/InAs semiconductor quantum dot (QD) located in a nanocavity. A …