Exactly soluble model of resonant energy transfer between molecules
Abstract
Förster's theory of resonant energy transfer (FRET) predicts the strength and range of exciton transport between separated molecules. We introduce an exactly soluble model for FRET which reproduces Förster's results as well as incorporating quantum coherence effects. As an application, the model is used to analyze a system composed of quantum dots and the protein bacteriorhodopsin.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- March 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.125106
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1108.0935
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhRvB..85l5106K
- Keywords:
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- 33.90.+h;
- 42.50.Dv;
- 87.14.E-;
- 87.64.K-;
- Other topics in molecular properties and interactions with photons;
- Nonclassical states of the electromagnetic field including entangled photon states;
- quantum state engineering and measurements;
- Proteins;
- Spectroscopy;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 2 figures