Dissipation and dynamics in ultrafast intersystem crossings

Author ORCID Identifier

Michel Van Veenendaal:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4853-5904

Publication Title

Journal of Chemical Physics

ISSN

00219606

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The effects of dynamics and dissipation on ultrafast intersystem crossings are studied for a dissipative two-level system coupled to a local vibronic mode. A method of amplitude damping of the wave packet is presented that accounts better for the position of the wave packet and avoids spurious transitions between potential wells. It is demonstrated that Fermi's golden rule, the typical semiquantitative approach to extract population transfer rates from potential landscapes, only holds under limited conditions. Generally, the effects of dynamics and dissipation lead to deviations from the expected exponential population transfer, strong changes in transfer times and total population transfer, and significant recurrence or "spill back" of the wave packet.

Publication Date

1-8-2020

DOI

10.1063/1.5125005

PubMed ID

31941326

Department

Department of Physics

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