Decoherence in photosynthetic energy transfer : based on a spin bath model

In this thesis we study the coherent energy transfer in photosynthetic systems. This resonant energy transfer has proven to be a coherent transfer in some light harvest complexes. The model which we suggest to describe this mechanism is an exciton hopping on an N-site ring coupled to a spin bath. An...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhu, Zhen
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13854