Photoisomerization in a Dissipative Environment

Details Photoisomerization in a Dissipative Environment Photoisomerization in a Dissipative Environment

2006-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612202v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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We investigate photoisomerization (PI), the shape change of a molecule upon photoabsorption, in a dissipative environment using a simple spin-boson model. We identify two classes of environment depending on whether it "entangles" with the molecule. In the absence of entanglement, the environment merely causes a blue shift of the required photon frequency and reduces the quantum efficiency of PI. With entanglement the molecule can undergo a quantum phase transition between a state that photoisomerizes to a state that does not.

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