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Chemical Dimerization-Induced Protein Condensates on Telomeres
Published on: April 12, 2021
Real-time charge oscillation between monomers in a dimeric system associated with intermolecular vibration induced by
Takayoshi Kobayashi1, Masakatsu Hirasawa
1Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. kobayashi@phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Abstract:
Ultrafast charge resonant (CR) dynamics between two molecules in a dimer system has been studied theoretically and experimentally using 6-fs laser pulses and a thin film of amorphous-phase phthalocyanine tin(IV) dichloride (SnPc). The modulation of the absorbance change in the bleaching spectral range of the CR absorption band was analyzed to obtain the amount of charge resonantly transferred back and forth by a dimeric vibration induced by photoexcitation. The modulation can be explained in terms of a periodic change in the cross section and a periodic energy shift, where both are induced by the change in the overlap integral caused by the accordion-type intermolecular vibration. The associated change in distance between two molecules with the intermolecular vibration was estimated to be 0.09 A, which corresponds to 2.5% of the mean distance between the two SnPc molecules in the dimeric system.
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