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Photon Echo Study of the Electron-Phonon Coupling Strength in Molecules and Molecular Aggregates

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Ultrafast Phenomena XIV

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A method for direct measurement of the system-bath coupling strength in molecules and molecular aggregates, based on the three pulse photon echo technique with non-trivial time ordering of interacting laser pulses, is proposed and realized. A surprisingly low magnitude of the Huang-Rhys factor (∼ 1) was measured for the natural molecular aggregates (chlorosomes from the Cf. aurantiacus bacteria) at room temperature.

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  1. Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081, HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Valentin I. Prokhorenko & Rienk van Grondelle

  2. Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H6

    Valentin I. Prokhorenko & R.J. Dwayne Miller

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Takayoshi Kobayashi

  2. Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1192, Japan

    Tadashi Okada

  3. Engineering Science, Osaka University, Machikaneyama-Cho 1-3, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan

    Tetsuro Kobayashi

  4. MIT Room 6-235, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Keith A. Nelson

  5. Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Sandro De Silvestri

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Prokhorenko, V.I., van Grondelle, R., Dwayne Miller, R. (2005). Photon Echo Study of the Electron-Phonon Coupling Strength in Molecules and Molecular Aggregates. In: Kobayashi, T., Okada, T., Kobayashi, T., Nelson, K.A., De Silvestri, S. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XIV. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 79. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27213-5_183

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