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Theoretical Treatments of Radiationless Transitions
Author(s) -
Chin C. H.,
Shiu H.Y.J.,
Wang H.W.,
Chen Y.L.,
Wang C.C.,
Lin S. H.,
Hayashi M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of the chinese chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.329
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 2192-6549
pISSN - 0009-4536
DOI - 10.1002/jccs.200600016
Subject(s) - chemistry , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , reaction rate constant , electron transfer , density matrix , chemical physics , population , dynamics (music) , statistical physics , atomic physics , computational chemistry , quantum , photochemistry , quantum mechanics , kinetics , physics , demography , sociology , acoustics
In this review, we present a microscopic theory for describing photo‐induced radiationless transitions. For this purpose, we state that introducing the density matrix method can not only treat the dynamics due to the radiationless transitions but also deal with the population and coherence dynamics. We briefly review several rate constants of the radiationless transitions and the analytic estimation methods of those rate constants. Finally, we present the applications of the theoretical treatment to the rapid electron transfer and energy transfer taking place in the photosynthetic reaction centers.