Intramolecular charge transfer and the function of vibronic excitons in photosynthetic light harvesting

WF Beck - Photosynthesis Research, 2024 - Springer
A widely discussed explanation for the prevalence of pairs or clusters of closely spaced
electronic chromophores in photosynthetic light-harvesting proteins is the presence of …

Real-time capture of nuclear motions influencing photoinduced electron transfer

P Kim, S Roy, AJS Valentine, X Liu, S Kromer… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Although vibronic coupling phenomena have been recognized in the excite state dynamics
of transition metal complexes, its impact on photoinduced electron transfer (PET) remains …

Vibrations that do not promote vibronic coupling can dominate observed lineshapes in two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

A Sahu, V Tiwari - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Impulsively generated wavepackets can report on vibronic couplings underlying ultrafast
electronic relaxation. Coherence maps (CMs) in multidimensional spectroscopy resolve …

Electronic-vibrational resonance damping time-dependent photosynthetic energy transfer acceleration revealed by 2D electronic spectroscopy

P Lei, J Cheng, C Zhang, W Zhang, H He… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
The effects of damping time of electronic-vibrational resonance modes on energy transfer in
photosynthetic light-harvesting systems are examined. Using the hierarchical equations of …

Low-and high-frequency vibrations synergistically enhance singlet exciton fission through robust vibronic resonances

A Bhattacharyya, A Sahu, S Patra… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Singlet exciton fission (SEF) is initiated by ultrafast internal conversion of a singlet exciton
into a correlated triplet pair (TT) 1. The “reaction coordinates” for ultrafast SEF even in …

Vibronic resonance along effective modes mediates selective energy transfer in excitonically coupled aggregates

S Patra, V Tiwari - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We recently proposed effective normal modes for excitonically coupled aggregates that
exactly transform the energy transfer Hamiltonian into a sum of one-dimensional …

Effective normal modes identify vibrational motions which maximally promote vibronic mixing in excitonically coupled aggregates

S Patra, A Sahu, V Tiwari - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Controlling energy transfer through vibronic resonance is an interesting possibility. Exact
treatment of non-adiabatic vibronic coupling is necessary to fully capture its role in driving …

Quantum Coherence in Chemical and Photobiological Systems

JS Higgins, WR Hollingsworth, LT Lloyd… - Emerging Trends in …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nonlinear spectroscopic experiments can probe the ultrafast excited state quantum
dynamics of condensed phase systems. In many of these spectroscopies, oscillatory …

Thesis Defense: Fluorescence-detected Multidimensional Electronic Spectroscopy (fMES) with a Visible White-light Continuum: New Experimental Approaches and …

G Maiya - sscu.iisc.ac.in
Multidimensional Electronic Spectroscopy (MDES) presents the state-of-the-art spectroscopy
method within the umbrella of time-resolved four-wavemixing techniques. MDES works by …