Patra, S and Tiwari, V (2022) Vibronic resonance along effective modes mediates selective energy transfer in excitonically coupled aggregates. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 156 (18).
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Abstract
We recently proposed effective normal modes for excitonically coupled aggregates that exactly transform the energy transfer Hamiltonian into a sum of one-dimensional Hamiltonians along the effective normal modes. Identifying physically meaningful vibrational motions that maximally promote vibronic mixing suggested an interesting possibility of leveraging vibrational-electronic resonance for mediating selective energy transfer. Here, we expand on the effective mode approach, elucidating its iterative nature for successively larger aggregates, and extend the idea of mediated energy transfer to larger aggregates. We show that energy transfer between electronically uncoupled but vibronically resonant donor-acceptor sites does not depend on the intermediate site energy or the number of intermediate sites. The intermediate sites simply mediate electronic coupling such that vibronic coupling along specific promoter modes leads to direct donor-acceptor energy transfer, bypassing any intermediate uphill energy transfer steps. We show that the interplay between the electronic Hamiltonian and the effective mode transformation partitions the linear vibronic coupling along specific promoter modes to dictate the selectivity of mediated energy transfer with a vital role of interference between vibronic couplings and multi-particle basis states. Our results suggest a general design principle for enhancing energy transfer through synergistic effects of vibronic resonance and weak mediated electronic coupling, where both effects individually do not promote efficient energy transfer. The effective mode approach proposed here paves a facile route toward four-wavemixing spectroscopy simulations of larger aggregates without severely approximating resonant vibronic coupling. © 2022 Author(s).
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Publisher: | American Institute of Physics Inc. |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors. |
| Keywords: | Aggregates; Hamiltonians; Linear transformations; Resonance, Donor/acceptor; Electronic coupling; Energy-transfer; Large aggregates; Mode approach; Normal modes; One-dimensional; Transfer Hamiltonian; Vibronic coupling; Vibronics, Energy transfer, adult; article; binding site; energy transfer; promoter region; simulation; spectroscopy; synergistic effect |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2022 05:02 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2022 05:02 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/76809 |
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