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Excitonic Hamiltonians for Calculating Optical Absorption Spectra and Optoelectronic Properties of Molecular Aggregates and Solids
Published on: May 27, 2020
Localization of coherent exciton transport in phase space
Oliver Mülken1, Veronika Bierbaum, Alexander Blumen
1Theoretische Polymerphysik, Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 3, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Abstract:
We study numerically the dynamics of excitons on discrete rings in the presence of static disorder. Based on continuous-time quantum walks we compute the time evolution of the Wigner function (WF) both for pure diagonal (site) disorder, as well as for diagonal and off-diagonal (site and transfer) disorder. In both cases, large disorder leads to localization and destroys the characteristic phase space patterns of the WF found in the absence of disorder.
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