ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Electron transfer processes in Debye solvents are studied using a spectral analysis method recently proposed. Spectral structure of a nonadiabatic two-state diffusion equation is investigated to reveal various kinetic regimes characterized by a broad range of physical parameters; electronic coupling, energy bias, reorganization energy, and solvent relaxation rate. Within this unified framework, several kinetic behaviors of the electron transfer kinetics, including adiabatic Rabi oscillation, crossover from the nonadiabatic to adiabatic limits, transition from the incoherent to coherent kinetic limits, and dynamic bath effect, are demonstrated and compared with results from previous theoretical models. Dynamics of the electron transfer system is also calculated with the spectral analysis method. It is pointed out that in the large reorganization energy case the nonadiabatic diffusion equation exhibits a nonphysical behavior, yielding a negative eigenvalue. © 2002 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1491241
