This is the first in a series of two papers investigating the effect of electron-phonon coupling in two-dimensional Fourier transformed electronic spectroscopy. We present a series of one- and two-dimensional nonlinear spectroscopic techniques for studying a dye molecule in solution. Ultrafast laser pulse excitation of an electronic transition coupled to vibrational modes induces a propagating vibrational wave packet that manifests itself in oscillating signal intensities and line-shapes. For the two-dimensional electronic spectra we can attribute the observed modulations to periodic enhancement and decrement of the relative amplitudes of rephasing and non-rephasing contributions to the total response. Different metrics of the two-dimensional signals are shown to relate to the frequency-frequency correlation function which provides the connection between experimentally accessible observations and the underlying microscopic molecular dynamics. A detailed theory of the time-dependent two-dimensional spectral line-shapes is presented in the accompanying paper [T. Mancal et al., arXiv:1003.xxxx].
Enhancement of Vibronic and Ground-State Vibrational Coherences in 2D Spectra of Photosynthetic Complexes
应用振动激子模型来研究由于电子和核自由度的混合而增强相干振荡的机制，最近提出该机制是FMO络合物的2D光谱中的长寿命振荡的起源[Christensson et al. J. Phys. Chem. B 116（2012）7449]。我们减少了一个模型BChl二聚体的问题，以阐明共振耦合，网站能量，核模式和能量无序的振动激子和基态振动相干增强的作用，并确定制度，这种增强是显着的。对于一个异二聚体代表的两个耦合BChls 3和4的FMO复合物，振动激子和振动相干的初始振幅分别增强了高达15和5倍，相比，在孤立的单体中的振动相干。当电子能隙和振动模式的频率之间存在共振时，出现这种最大初始振幅增强。对于这两种机制，这种增强的带宽约为100 cm-1。电子和振动自由度的激子混合导致相对于振动相干性的额外退相。我们通过求解马尔可夫近似下的量子主方程来评估退相动力学，并观察到模式频率对寿命增强的强烈依赖性。长寿命的电子振动激子相干被发现仅当模式的频率是在附近的电子共振产生。虽然与基态振动相干态相比，振动激子相干态具有更大的初始振幅，但我们得出结论，对于本模型，这两种类型在长时间内具有相似的振幅。讨论了在分子聚集体的一般情况下区分电子振动激子和基态振动相干的能力。
Oscillations in time-dependent 2D electronic spectra appear as evidence of quantum coherence in light-harvesting systems related to electronic-vibrational resonant interactions. Nature, however, takes place in a non-equilibrium steady-state, so the relevance of these arguments to the natural process is unclear. Here we examine the role of intramolecular vibrations in the non-equilibrium steady-state of photosynthetic dimers in the natural scenario of incoherent light excitation. It is found that vibrations resonant with the energy difference between exciton states do not increase the quantum y…
