Marcus rate for electron transfer and the Goldilocks principle
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2013-06-11 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We examine electron transfer between two quantum states in the presence of a dissipative environment represented as a set of independent harmonic oscillators. For this simple model, the Marcus transfer rates can be derived and we show that these rates are associated to an explicit expression for the environment correlation time. We demonstrate that as a manifestation of the Goldilocks principle, the optimal transfer is governed by a single parameter which is equal to just the inverse root square of two.
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@article{arxiv.1306.1980,
title = {Marcus rate for electron transfer and the Goldilocks principle},
author = {Lev Mourokh and Seth Lloyd},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.1980},
year = {2013}
}