We studied the effects of underdamped vibrational modes on excitonic energy transfer in small molecular aggregates by means of ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy. We developed a vibronic dynamical model to account for the interplay of electronic and vibrational coherence during excitation transport. Our model was aimed to simulate signals of a broad class of linear and third order spectroscopies (absorption, fluorescence, transient absorption (TA), transient grating (TG), two-dimensional spectroscopy (2D)) in the visible domain andaccounts for anharmonic vibrations, sub-exponential relaxation and nonlinear electron-vibrational coupling. We subsequently applied the model for several case studies, such as carotenoid to bacteriochlorophyll excitation transfer in light-harvesting 2 complex (LH2) of purple bacteria, excitation transfer in perylene dyads or vibrational dynamics in hypericin. We have paid particular attention for detailed interpretation of lineshapes of 2D spectrograms employing, e.g. phase analysis and center line (CL) slopes with emphasis to study interplay of electronic, vibrational modulations, or finite excitation pulse durations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:405494 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Perlík, Václav |
| Contributors | Šanda, František, Alster, Jan, Gelin, Maxim |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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