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Effect of the excitation pulse frequency on the ultrafast photoinduced electron transfer dynamics
Roman G Fedunov1, Anatoly I Ivanov
1Department of Physics, Volgograd State University, University Avenue, 100, Volgograd 400062, Russia.
Abstract:
The dependence of the ultrafast photoinduced electron transfer dynamics in donor-acceptor complexes on the excitation pulse carrier frequency (spectral effect) has been investigated in the framework of a model involving three electronic state. The spectral effect has been shown to strongly depend on the angle theta between the reaction coordinate directions corresponding to optical and charge transfer transitions. Describing the solvent as a linear homogenous polar medium and accounting for Coulombic interaction of the transferred charge with the medium polarization fluctuations, the angle theta has been found out to be typically in the area 40 degrees -85 degrees. Exactly in this area of theta the spectral effect is predicted to be most pronounced.
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