Optimal rates for electron transfer in Marcus theory
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Mourokh, Lev
Lloyd, Seth
Date Issued
October 2013
Journal
Physical Review E
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American Physical Society
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Mourokh, Lev, and Seth Lloyd. “Optimal rates for electron transfer in Marcus theory.” Physical Review E 88, no. 4 (October 2013). © 2013 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We examine electron transfer between two quantum states in the presence of a dissipative environment represented as a set of independent harmonic oscillators. For this simple model, the Marcus transfer rates can be derived from the equations of motion for electronic operators and we show that these rates are associated to an explicit expression for the environment correlation time. We demonstrate that as a manifestation of the Goldilocks principle, the optimal transfer is governed by a single parameter which is equal to just the inverse square root of 2.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.88.042819
