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Excitonic Hamiltonians for Calculating Optical Absorption Spectra and Optoelectronic Properties of Molecular Aggregates and Solids
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Exciton dynamics in chromophore aggregates with correlated environment fluctuations

Darius Abramavicius1, Shaul Mukamel

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Jilin University, People's Republic of China. darius.abramavicius@ff.vu.lt

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|May 10, 2011
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