arXiv:1705.00738

An Almost Analytical Approach to Simulating 2D Electronic Spectra

Pallavi Bhattacharyya, Nandini Ananth

Published May 1, 2017• 1 citation

Abstract

We introduce an almost analytical method to simulate 2D electronic spectra as a double Fourier transform of the the non-linear response function (NRF) corresponding to a particular optical pulse sequence. We employ a unitary transformation to represent the total system Hamiltonian in a stationary basis that allows us to separate contributions from decoherence and phonon-mediated population relaxation to the NRF. Previously, one of us demonstrated the use of an analytic, cumulant expansion approach to calculate the decoherence term. Here, we extend this idea to obtain an accurate expression for the population relaxation term, a significant improvement over standard quantum master equation-based approximations. We numerically demonstrate the accuracy of our method by computing the photon echo spectrum of a two-level system coupled to a thermal bath, and we highlight the mechanistic insights obtained from our simulation.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.00738

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