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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 145, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4972140
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- US AFOSR [FA9550-13-1-0005]
- NSERC
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Light-induced processes in nature occur by irradiation with slowly turned-on incoherent light. The general case of time-dependent incoherent excitation is solved here analytically for V-type systems using a newly developed master equation method. Clear evidence emerges for the disappearance of radiatively induced coherence as turn-on times of the radiation exceed characteristic system times. The latter is the case, in nature, for all relevant dynamical time scales for other than nearly degenerate energy levels. We estimate that, in the absence of non-radiative relaxation and decoherence, turn-on times slower than 1 ms (still short by natural standards) only induce Fano coherences between energy eigenstates that are separated by less than 0.9 cm(-1). Published by AIP Publishing.
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