Effective two-state systems in bridge-mediated electron transfer. A Green function analysis

✍ Scribed by Spiros S. Skourtis; José Nelson Onuchic

• Book ID: 103035152
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 532 KB
• Volume: 209
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(93)87219-s

✦ Synopsis

We derived the criteria for the validity of the effective two-state picture of bridge-mediated electron transfer for a one-electron many-state system. The leading error associated with the two-state reduction is calculated. Our Green function analysis connects the time and energy domains. It gives a precise interpretation of the Liiwdin diagonalization technique and the tunnelling energy in terms of the time evolution of the purely electronic part of the electron-transfer probability.