Dissipative Exciton Dynamics in Light-Harvesting Complexes

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Introduction

   • Marco Schröter

   Pages 1-3

3. Dissipative quantum dynamics

   • Marco Schröter

   Pages 5-48

4. Energy transfer in light-harvesting complexes

   • Marco Schröter

   Pages 49-81

5. Summary

   • Marco Schröter

   Pages 83-84

6. Back Matter

   Pages 85-121

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Marco Schröter investigates the influence of the local environment on the exciton dynamics within molecular aggregates, which build, e.g., the light-harvesting complexes of plants, bacteria or algae by means of the hierarchy equations of motion (HEOM) method. He addresses the following questions in detail: How can coherent oscillations within a system of coupled molecules be interpreted? What are the changes in the quantum dynamics of the system for increasing coupling strength between electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom? To what extent does decoherence govern the energy transfer properties of molecular aggregates?.

• Molecular Physics
• Molekülphysik
• Photosynthese
• Photosyntheses
• Quantendynamik
• Quantum Dynamics

• Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany

  Marco Schröter

Marco Schröter is a PhD student at the Institute of Physics at the University of Rostock. He currently works on the topic of exciton dynamics in molecular aggregates.

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