mini-course @ DF

[Rosita]

Announcement of a mini-course of 10 hours, delivered by Dr. Francesca
Fassioli Olsen, Department of Physics, on:


Quantum coherence in photosynthetic light harvesting


The course will take place in the room 204 of the Department of Physics
at the Leonardo Building, with the following schedule:


Tuesday, November 5th, 14.30--16
Friday, November 8th, 14.30--16
Tuesday, November 12th, 14.30--16

1. Modelling electronic excitations in pigment-protein complexes

1.1 The Hamiltonian of a pigment-protein complex.
Electronic transitions and their interaction with the biomolecular
environment
1.2 Photosynthetic excitons: quantum coherence and delocalised excited states
1.3 Sources of exciton localisation

Friday, November 15th, 14.30--16
Tuesday, November 19th, 14.30--16
Friday, November 22nd, 14.30--16

2. Dynamics of electronic excitations: from incoherent to coherent energy
transfer

2.1 Competing energy and time scales
2.2 The limiting regimes: Forster theory and Redfield theory
2.3 Non-Markovian dynamics: the structured vibrational environment
Coherent interaction between excitations and vibrational modes
2.4 Exciton vs vibronic model

Tuesday, November 26th, 14.30--16
Tuesday, December 3rd, 14.30--16
Friday,  December 6th, 14.30--16

3. Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy: Detecting quantum coherence
experimentally

3.1 The response function
3.2 Diagrammatic approach: Feynmann diagrams
3.3 2D spectra of an electronic dimer
3.4 2D spectra of a vibronic (vibrational-electronic) dimer: electronic vs
vibrational coherence

Tuesday December 4th, 14.30--16

4. Implications of quantum coherence for light harvesting: concluding
remarks and perspective

All those interested are mostly welcome