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ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL 69
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages 327-352Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-052516-050602
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photosynthesis; resonance; correlated vibrations; excitons; electronic coherence; quantum beats; femtosecond Raman scattering; 2D oscillation maps
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- Division Of Chemistry [1405050] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Femtosecond two-dimensional (2D) Fourier transform spectroscopy generates and probes several types of coherence that characterize the couplings between vibrational and electronic motions. These couplings have been studied in molecules with Jahn-Teller conical intersections, pseudo-Jahn-Teller funnels, dimers, molecular aggregates, photosynthetic light harvesting complexes, and photosynthetic reaction centers. All have closely related Hamiltonians and at least two types of vibrations, including one that is decoupled from the electronic dynamics and one that is nonadiabatically coupled. Polarized pulse sequences can often be used to distinguish these types of vibrations. Electronic coherences are rapidly obscured by inhomogeneous dephasing. The longest-lived coherences in these systems arise from delocalized vibrations on the ground electronic state that are enhanced by a nonadiabatic Raman excitation process. These characterize the initial excited-state dynamics. 2D oscillation maps are beginning to isolate the medium lifetime vibronic coherences that report on subsequent stages of the excited-state dynamics.
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