Electron transfer reactions: generalized spin-boson approach

DOI10.1007/S10910-012-0124-5MaRDI QIDQ1945544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Merkli, G. P. Berman, Richard T. Sayre

Publication date 8 April 2013

Published in Journal of Mathematical Chemistry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.6499

zbMATH Keywords

degenerate donor/acceptordonor-acceptor quantum systemelectron transfermathematically rigorous spin-boson modelphotosynthetic reaction centerquantum resonancesreactant-product quantum systemrelaxation timethermal quantum noise

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Molecular physics (81V55) Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry (92E20)

Abstract: We introduce a mathematically rigorous analysis of a generalized spin-boson system for the treatment of a donor-acceptor (reactant-product) quantum system coupled to a thermal quantum noise. The donor/acceptor probability dynamics describes transport reactions in chemical processes in presence of a noisy environment -- such as the electron transfer in a photosynthetic reaction center. Besides being rigorous, our analysis has the advantages over previous ones that (1) we include a general, non energy-conserving system-environment interaction, and that (2) we allow for the donor or acceptor to consist of multiple energy levels lying closely together. We establish explicit expressions for the rates and the efficiency (final donor-acceptor population difference) of the reaction. In particular, we show that the rate increases for a multi-level acceptor, but the efficiency does not.

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