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F\"orster theory describes electronic exciton energy migration in molecular assemblies as an incoherent hopping process between donor and acceptor molecules. The rate is expressed in terms of the overlap integral between donor fluorescence…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Marco Schröter , Tõnu Pullerits , Oliver Kühn

We examine the effect of structural disorder and dynamical lattice fluctuation on charge migration dynamics starting from a birth of local exciton in a quantum network of molecular aggregates by using model Hamiltonians having complicate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Takehiro Yonehara

We present a comprehensive study of exciton wave packet evolution in disordered lossless polaritonic wires. Our simulations reveal signatures of ballistic, diffusive, and subdiffusive exciton dynamics under strong light-matter coupling and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Gustavo J. R. Aroeira , Kyle Kairys , Raphael F. Ribeiro

Recent advances in transport properties measurements of disordered materials and lattice simulations, using superconducting qubits, have rekindled interest in Anderson localization, motivating our study of highly disordered quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Ilia Tutunnikov , Jianshu Cao

The effects of quenched disorder on the overdamped motion of a driven particle on a periodic, asymmetric potential is studied. While for the unperturbed potential the transport is due to a regular drift, the quenched disorder induces a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. N. Popescu , C. M. Arizmendi , A. L. Salas-Brito , F. Family

In this theoretical study, we explore F\"orster resonant energy transfer of a single exciton within a two-dimensional array of self-assembled quantum dots arranged randomly on a circular mesa. Employing the stochastic simulation method, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Karol Kawa , Paweł Machnikowski

We study the effect of disorder on the particle density evolution in a classical Hamiltonian driven lattice setup. If the disorder is localized within a finite sub-domain of the lattice, the emergence of strong tails in the density…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Thomas Wulf , Alexander Okupnik , Peter Schmelcher

This is a review of exciton dynamics in conjugated polymers. Exciton dynamics encompass multiple time and length scales. Ultrafast femtosecond processes are intrachain and involve a quantum mechanical correlation of the exciton and nuclear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-15 William Barford

This paper considers the propagation of excitons in linear chains of QDs with a side defect, located on a dielectric substrate. This configuration is suitable for spatially selective excitation of the system by pulsed optical radiation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Aleksey Vlasov , Pavel Golovinski

Static or frozen disorder, characterised by spatial heterogeneities, influences diverse complex systems, encompassing many-body systems, equilibrium and nonequilibrium states of matter, intricate network topologies, biological systems, and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-24 M. Ahumada , L. Trujillo , J. F. Marín

An exact analytical theory is developed for calculating the diffusion coefficient of charge carriers in strongly anisotropic disordered solids with one-dimensional hopping transport mode for any dependence of the hopping rates on space and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-01-10 A. V. Nenashev , F. Jansson , S. D. Baranovskii , R. Österbacka , A. V. Dvurechenskii , F. Gebhard

We investigate transport through molecular wires whose energy levels are affected by environmental fluctuations. We assume that the relevant fluctuations are so slow that they, within a tight-binding description, can be described by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-09 Franz J. Kaiser , Peter Hänggi , Sigmund Kohler

A novel feature of electron transport is explored through a thin film of varying impurity density with the distance from its surface. The film, attached to two metallic electrodes, is described by simple tight-binding model and its coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-15 Santanu K. Maiti

We study transport of interacting particles in weakly disordered media. Our one-dimensional system includes (i) disorder: the hopping rate governing the movement of a particle between two neighboring lattice sites is inhomogeneous, and (ii)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-13 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

Diffusion processes are studied theoretically for the case where the diffusion coefficient is itself a time and position dependent random function. We investigate how inhomogeneities and fluctuations of the diffusion coefficient affect the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-05 Jacopo Bertolotti

The ratio between mobility and diffusion parameters is derived for a Gaussian-like density of states. This steady-state analysis is expected to be applicable to a wide range of organic materials (polymers or small molecules) as it relies on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yohai Roichman , Nir Tessler

Recent ultrafast optical experiments show that excitons in large biological light-harvesting complexes are coupled to molecular vibration modes. These high-frequency vibrations will not only affect the optical response, but also drive the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 Arend G. Dijkstra , Chen Wang , Jianshu Cao , Graham R. Fleming

We investigate the energy transport in one-dimensional disordered granular solids by extensive numerical simulations. In particular, we consider the case of a polydisperse granular chain composed of spherical beads of the same material and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-02 V. Achilleos , G. Theocharis , Ch. Skokos

In a one dimensional lattice thermal fluctuations destroy the long-range order making particles of the lattice move on a scale much larger than the lattice spacing. We discuss the assumption that this motion may be responsible for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 A. V. Plyukhin

We investigate the influence of static disorder and thermal excitations on excitonic energy transport in the light-harvesting apparatus of photosynthetic systems by solving the Schr\"{o}dinger equation and taking into account the coherent…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-09-07 Shi-Jie Xiong , Ye Xiong , Yang Zhao