Energy Transfer Dynamics in Biomaterial Systems

This book presents a collection of 14 review articles that cover the key topics addressed in the workshop "Energy Flow Dynamics in Biomaterial Systems" which was held in October 2007 in Paris. These reviews illustrate the many facets of today's theoretical picture of electronic and vibronic dynamics and transport phenomena in biological, biomimetic, and molecular electronic systems. Part I focuses on excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic reaction centers and other multichromophoric systems, part II gives a tour d'horizon of DNA research, and part III addresses molecular electronics and quantum transport in organic materials. Finally, parts IV and V cover recent methodological developments in open system dynamics and hybrid quantum-classical methods. The scope of the book is deliberately broad in terms of physical systems studied and yet unified in the use of quantum dynamical methods to describe transient and often ultrafast energy and charge transfer events in complex systems.Table of contentsPart I: Excitation Energy Transfer in Complex Molecular and Biological Systems.- Elisabetta Collini, Carles Curutchet, Tihana Mirkovic, Gregory D.Scholes: Electronic Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Antenna Systems.- Hui Zhu, Volkhard May: Mixed Quantum Classical Simulations of Electronic Excitation Energy Transfer and Related Optical Spectra: Supramolecular Pheophorbidefer: Time-Local Quantum Master Equations and their Applications to Dissipative Dynamics and Molecular Wires.- David A. Micha, Andrew S. Leathers: Reduced Density Matrix Equations for Combined Instantaneous and Delayed Dissipation in Many-Atom Systems, and their Numerical Treatment.- Part V: New Methods for Mixing Quantum and Classical Mechanics.- Robbie Grunwald, Aaron Kelly, Raymond Kapral: Quantum Dynamics in Almost Classical Environments.- S. Bonella, D. F. Coker, D. Mac Kernan, R. Kapral, G. Ciccotti: Trajectory Based Simulations of Quantum-Classical Systems.- Giovanni Ciccotti, Sergio Caprara, Federica Agostini: Do We Have a Consistent Non-Adiabatic Quantum-Classical Statistical Mechanics?.-