Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2006-02-02
J. Chem. Phys. 124, 124905 (2006)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in J. Chem. Phys
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2179427
We model coherent exciton transport in dendrimers by continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs). For dendrimers up to the second generation the coherent transport shows perfect recurrences, when the initial excitation starts at the central node. For larger dendrimers, the recurrence ceases to be perfect, a fact which resembles results for discrete quantum carpets. Moreover, depending on the initial excitation site we find that the coherent transport to certain nodes of the dendrimer has a very low probability. When the initial excitation starts from the central node, the problem can be mapped onto a line which simplifies the computational effort. Furthermore, the long time average of the quantum mechanical transition probabilities between pairs of nodes show characteristic patterns and allow to classify the nodes into clusters with identical limiting probabilities. For the (space) average of the quantum mechanical probability to be still or again at the initial site, we obtain, based on the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, a simple lower bound which depends only on the eigenvalue spectrum of the Hamiltonian.
Bierbaum Veronika
Blumen Alexander
Muelken Oliver
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