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Photoexcited energy transfer in a weakly coupled dimer
Fecha
2015-06Registro en:
Alfonso Hernandez, Laura; Nelson, Tammie; Tretiak, Sergei; Fernández Alberti, Sebastián; Photoexcited energy transfer in a weakly coupled dimer; American Chemical Society; Journal of Physical Chemistry B; 119; 24; 6-2015; 7242-7252
1520-6106
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Alfonso Hernandez, Laura
Nelson, Tammie
Tretiak, Sergei
Fernández Alberti, Sebastián
Resumen
Nonadiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics (NA-ESMD) simulations have been performed in order to study the time-dependent exciton localization during energy transfer between two chromophore units of the weakly coupled anthracene dimer dithia-anthracenophane (DTA). Simulations are done at both low temperature (10 K) and room temperature (300 K). The initial photoexcitation creates an exciton which is primarily localized on a single monomer unit. Subsequently, the exciton experiences an ultrafast energy transfer becoming localized on either one monomer unit or the other, whereas delocalization between both monomers never occurs. In half of the trajectories, the electronic transition density becomes completely localized on the same monomer as the initial excitation, while in the other half, it becomes completely localized on the opposite monomer. In this article, we present an analysis of the energy transfer dynamics and the effect of thermally induced geometry distortions on the exciton localization. Finally, simulated fluorescence anisotropy decay curves for both DTA and the monomer unit dimethyl anthracene (DMA) are compared. Our analysis reveals that changes in the transition density localization caused by energy transfer between two monomers in DTA is not the only source of depolarization and exciton relaxation within a single DTA monomer unit can also cause reorientation of the transition dipole.