Quantum electron transport in degenerate donor-acceptor systems

DOI10.1063/1.5138725MaRDI QIDQ5140958zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Merkli, A. Saxena, G. P. Berman

Publication date 17 December 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06370

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Chemical kinetics in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A30) Molecular physics (81V55) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20) Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry (92E20)

Abstract: We develop a mathematically rigorous theory for the quantum transfer processes in degenerate donor-acceptor dimers in contact with a thermal environment. We calculate explicitly the transfer rates and the acceptor population efficiency. The latter depends critically on the initial donor state. We show that quantum coherence in the initial state enhances the transfer process. If the electron is initially shared coherently by the donor levels then the efficiency can reach values close to 100%, while an incoherent initial donor state will significantly suppress the efficiency. The results are useful for a better understanding of the quantum electron transport in many chemical, solid state, and biological systems with complex degenerate and quasi-degenerate energy landscapes.

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