3发色团激发态分子内质子转移机理的研究

采用密度泛函(DFT)和含时密度泛函理论(TDDFT)方法对一种新合成的发色团(3)在非质子性溶剂DMSO中的激发态分子内质子转移机制进行了理论研究.基于3发色团的基态和激发态优化结构, 计算得到了该发色团中与氢键相关的键长和键角的大小, 以及与氢键相连接的 O-H键红外振动光谱, 发现分子内氢键在激发态下有增强的趋势. 理论计算得到的吸收谱和荧光谱的峰值与实验测得的结果吻合得很好, 证明了所采用的理论方法的正确性与合理性. 最终, 通过对该发色团的分子内电荷转移与电荷分布的分析, 证实了激发态分子内质子转移发生的可能性, 并说明了其转移过程的发生机制.     

3发色团激发态分子内质子转移机理的研究

采用密度泛函(DFT)和含时密度泛函理论(TDDFT)方法对一种新合成的发色团(3)在非质子性溶剂DMSO中的激发态分子内质子转移机制进行了理论研究.基于3发色团的基态和激发态优化结构,计算得到了该发色团中与氢键相关的键长和键角的大小,以及与氢键相连接的O-H键红外振动光谱,发现分子内氢键在激发态下有增强的趋势.理论计算得到的吸收谱和荧光谱的峰值与实验测得的结果吻合得很好,证明了所采用的理论方法的正确性与合理性.最终,通过对该发色团的分子内电荷转移与电荷分布的分析,证实了激发态分子内质子转移发生的可能性,并说明了其转移过程的发生机制.     

Role of Mode-mode Coupling in Short-time Excited State Decay

Master equation of a relevant electronic and vibrational system is derived for a special diabatic basis corresponding to vertical processes. It is shown that bath modes contribute dynamically to the inter-state coupling only at short times. For long times the bath-induced inter-state coupling is static and increases with the contribution of bath modes to the Stokes shift and to the Herzberg-Teller correction of the excited state. Simultaneously, the time evolution of excited state population is studied numerically for the system consisting of two electronic levels interacting with two vibrational modes, coupled to a heat bath. A mutual coupling of the vibrational modes in the excited state is taken into account (Duschinsky effect). Excited state population relaxes faster if interacting vibrational mode dissipates its energy via vibrational mode of a smaller eigenfrequency. Fast component of excited state depopulation cannot be achieved via coherent mode-mode coupling, if the second mode is not directly coupled to the electronic inter-state transition.     

Retinal in bacteriorhodopsin and related molecular models investigated with Raman spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations

A first‐principles assisted study of the Raman spectrum associated with the photoactive chromophore in bacteriorhodopsin (bR) allowed the elucidation of the effective coupling existing between the π electrons of the retinylidene chromophore and the local environment of the Schiff base. The role of the counter‐ion on the electronic and vibrational structure of the chromophore is investigated by means of density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Several molecular models of the retinylidene chromophore interacting with different counter‐ions facing the Schiff base have been considered. The counter‐ion induces a strong modulation of the position of both the UV–vis absorption maximum and the strong Raman active collective CC stretching mode, related to the effective conjugation coordinate (ECC). Experimental Raman and UV–vis absorption data are interpreted in the light of these theoretical findings. The data collected in this paper provide an interesting accumulation of points along the optical gap versus ECC wavenumber relationship. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Relaxation Processes at High Levels of Vibrational Excitation of Polyatomic Molecules in the Ground Electronic State

By the spectral and kinetic characteristics of the luminescence of vapors of polyatomic molecules (anthracene, anthraquinone, fluorenone) initiated by selective IR multiphoton excitation (IR MPE) of molecules in the ground electronic state S ₀ the relaxation processes proceeding under vibrational excitation of molecules to energies exceeding the energies of the lower excited electronic states have been investigated. The changes in the spectral and kinetic characteristics with increasing CO₂ laser energy density and vapor P _v and foreign gas pressure P _FG are analyzed. They are similar to the characteristics obtained for normal fluorescence of these molecules with changing vibrational energy E _vib content. On the basis of experimental data and model calculations it has been concluded that at the laser radiation densities used in the case of IR MPE the molecules reach energies considerably exceeding the energies of the electronic levels. It is shown that a nonadiabatic connection between the electronic states leads to the population of mixed electronic states isoenergetic to the vibrational levels of the ground electronic state and to emission of delayed luminescence spectrally identical to the normal luminescence of these molecules. It has been found that when high vibrational levels are populated, new relaxation channels, such as reverse electron relaxation, emission from high vibrational levels of the ground electronic state, and multiquantum vibrational energy transfer at collisions leading to a rapid establishment of vibrational equilibrium become important.     

Laser-induced vibrational excitation and desorption in the Cs/Cu(1 1 1) and Na/Cu(1 1 1) systems

The Cs/Cu(1 1 1) and Na/Cu(1 1 1) systems exhibit a transient excited electronic state localized on the adsorbate. Photo-excitation of this state triggers a motion of the alkali adsorbate away from the surface, leading to vibrational excitation of the adsorbate and possibly to desorption. A theoretical study of these photo-induced processes in the case of an exciting fs laser pulse is reported, based on a time-dependent approach of the adsorbate motion. The mean energy transfer from the laser photon energy to the adsorbate motion is shown to be weak, about 1% of the photon energy. Correspondingly, the vibrational excitation to high lying levels is very weak as well as the desorption process. The initial electronic state of the photo-induced process belongs to a continuum and vibrational excitation and desorption are found to vary rapidly with the energy of the initial electronic state. Initial vibrational excitation of the alkali adsorbate is also found to efficiently favour the desorption process, leading to a drastic variation of the desorption probability with the vibrational temperature of the adsorbate. The present results for the two systems are discussed and compared, in connection with available experimental data on these systems and on similar ones.     

用代数能量方法研究氢化物双原子分子的完全振动能谱和离解能

本文用研究双原子分子振动能谱的新方法-代数方法(AM),研究了KH-X1Σ+,RbH-X1Σ+,DF-X1Σ+和DCl-X1Σ+等四个氢化物双原子分子的电子基态的振动光谱常数和振动能谱;用代数能量方法(AEM)研究了相应电子态的分子离解能.研究结果表明:使用实验获得的少数精确的振动能级[Eυ],由AM方法得到的振动能谱不仅能够重复这些电子态的已知实验能级,还能够得到用现代实验方法或精确的量子理论方法很难得到的所有高振动激发态的能级.由AEM方法能够得到比用文献发表的振动光谱常数计算获得的离解能值更准确的分子离解能.     

双原子分子离子XY+部分电子态完全振动能谱的精确研究

关于双原子分子离子XY 的完全振动能谱,目前还没有实验和理论的数据报道。本文首次应用代数方法AM(Algebraic Method),获得了BeH -X1Σ 态,CO -X2Σ 态,F2 -X2Πg态,O2 -A2Πu态和Li2 -X2Σg 态的精确振动光谱常数和完全振动能谱,解决了实验方法和精确量子力学理论方法难以获得双原子分子离子XY 的包含最高振动能级在内的所有高阶振动能级的精确数值这一问题。所有研究结果表明:由部分较低的实验精确振动能级,可用AM产生双原子分子离子XY 的精确振动光谱常数和包含全部激发态的完全振动能谱;所得的AM振动能谱比其他理论方法得到的结果更好。     

Theory of optical spectra involving charge transfer states: dynamic localization predicts a temperature dependent optical band shift

The influence of charge transfer states on the optical line shape of chromophore complexes is investigated in a minimal model that includes a coupling between an excited state and an optically dark charge transfer state. In the calculations of the absorption spectrum, an intensity borrowing by the charge transfer state, strong vibrational sidebands, and a temperature dependent shift of optical transitions are obtained. The theory is applied to the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center to explain a 30 nm blueshift of the low-energy absorption band with increasing temperature.     

变分代数能量自洽法研究Li_2分子部分电子态的解析势能

在课题组前期建立的计算双核分子体系解析势能函数的代数能量自洽法(algebraic energy consistent method,AECM)的基础上,引入了经改进得到的精确研究双核分子完全振动能谱的变分代数法(variational algebraic method,VAM),获得了计算双核分子体系精确解析势能函数的变分代数能量自洽法(variational algebraic energy consistent method,VAECM)。基于有限的精确实验振动能谱数据,利用VAECM方法研究了Li_2分子1~3Δ_g,3~3Σ_g~+,1~3Σ_g~-和b~3Π_u等4个电子态的完全振动能谱和解析势能函数。获得了各电子态包含高阶的振动光谱常数、完全振动能谱、振动力常数fn和势能展开系数an,并通过可调变分参数λ最终确定了VAECM解析势能函数的具体表达形式。计算结果与其他方法的研究结果进行了比较,VAECM方法获得的振动能谱数据和势能解析表达形式能更好地描述这些电子态在渐近区和离解区的物理行为,消除了利用前期AECM方法研究这些电子态在离解区出现的非物理势垒现象。     

Coherent dynamics of photoexcited green fluorescent proteins

The coherent dynamics of vibronic wave packets in the green fluorescent protein is reported. At room temperature the nonstationary dynamics following impulsive photoexcitation displays an oscillating optical transmissivity pattern with components at 67 fs (497 cm(-1)) and 59 fs (593 cm(-1)). Our results are complemented by ab initio calculations of the vibrational spectrum of the chromophore. This analysis shows the interplay between the dynamics of the aminoacidic structure and the electronic excitation in the primary optical events of green fluorescent proteins.     

Heating or cooling of gases with tunable laser radiation

A scheme for cooling or heating of gases using radiation from a tunable laser is proposed. Essentially the scheme consists of pumping of vibrational levels of an excited electronic state followed by reradiation to the vibrational states of a ground electronic state.     

飞秒激光控制的分子量子动力学研究：(Ⅰ)三维二能级系统

结合MCDTDH方法和优化控制理论，以吡嗪分子为例，模拟了在给定不同的目标态下具有3个振动模两个电子态的分子系统的量子动力学过程. 以电子激发态作为目标态，优化激光场为一个楔形脉冲，它所激发的电子波函数在两个调制模空间中振荡最后达到平衡位置，并有较高的目标态产生率.发现目标态的选择强烈地影响波函数随时间的演变情况，若目标态在各个模的平衡位置，在优化激光场的作用下，电子波函数被直接激发到其平衡位置；若目标态不在振动模的平衡位形，其电子波函数经过强烈的振荡以达到平衡态. 关键词： 优化控制 MCTDH 方法 分子量子动力学     

乙苯的三光子共振偏振电离谱

多光子过程的偏振特性可以用来标识电子态及振动结构的对称性.计算了几种简并三光子跃迁张量的理论偏振比值,还测量了乙苯的三光子共振偏振电离谱.经过偏振分析表明,产生跃迁的高电子激发态对称性为A″,并获得了它的振动结构.     

Evidence for the purely electronic character of primary electron transfer in purple bacteria Rh. Sphaeroides

A quantum-chemical calculation of the excited electronic states of a Rh. Sphaeroides reaction centre was performed. We discovered a new excited electronic state which can participate in electron transfer (ET). The energy gradient calculations showed that photoexcitation activates only high-frequency vibrational modes. This contradicts the widely accepted picture of ET resulting from vibrational wave packet motion. An alternative model is suggested where ET has a purely dissipative character and occurs only due to pigment--protein interaction. With this model, we demonstrate that oscillations in the femtosecond spectra can be caused by the new electronic state and non-Markovian character of dissipative dynamics.     

Resonance series of Br2 in the vacuum ultraviolet

A high-resolution resonance fluorescence spectrum of bromine excited by an electrical discharge in the region 1500–2100 Å was photographed on a 10.7-m concave grating vacuum spectrograph. Twelve resonance doublet series excited by four bromine atomic resonance lines were identified and analyzed. All doublet series have the ground state of ^79,81Br₂ as the lower electronic state. The vibrational numbers of these doublets corresponding to this state vary from 0 to 76. Rotational constants are obtained by least-squares fitting of the doublet separations, and the vibrational constants by least-squares analysis of vibrational term values. Probable assignments for the upper electronic state(s) of the transitions involved were suggested.     

Specific heat of small vanadium particles in the normal and superconducting state

The specific heat C of ultrafine vanadium particles of various diameters (2.9–13 nm) has been measured in the temperature interval 1.5–12 K and in magnetic fields up to 3.5 T. Both the vibrational and electronic contributions to C in the normal state are strongly enhanced as compared to the bulk behavior. For not too small particles (> ～10nm), the vibrational specific heat can be interpreted in terms of the discrete phonon spectrum of free elastically vibrating small spheres while, at low temperatures, the vibrational specific heat of the smallest particles is predominantly due to Einstein modes which are attributed to low-frequency vibrations of weakly bound surface atoms. Level quantization does not appear to play a detectable role in the electronic specific heat of the normal state. Rather, the observed enhancement must be attributed to an increased electronic density of states at (100) surfaces of bcc metals or to electronic states of substoichiometric V-oxides. The transition range to superconductivity progressively broadens with decreasing particle size due to fluctuations. In this temperature range, the electronic specific heat behaves in qualitative agreement with theoretical predictions.     

Stabilizing photoassociated Cs2 molecules by optimal control

We demonstrate theoretically that photoassociated molecules can be stabilized to deeply bound states. This process is achieved by transferring the population from the outer well to the inner well using the optimal control theory, the Cs 2 molecule is taken as an example. Numerical calculations show that weakly bound molecules formed in the outer well by a pump pulse can be compressed to the inner well via a vibrational level of the ground electronic state as an intermediary by an additionally optimized laser pulse. The positively chirped pulse can enhance the population of the target state. With a transform-limited dump pulse, nearly all the photoassociated molecules in the inner well of the excited electronic state can be transferred to the deeply vibrational level of the ground electronic state.     

Inter-state coupling and definitions of bright and dark states

Contrary to a standard definition of diabatic states (i.e., those without momentum-dependent coupling), based on the construction from adiabatic ones, we defined diabatic states as bright and dark states of a given experiment. Namely, they are defined as states providing maximum, respectively, zero value of electronic transition dipole moments projected to a given polarization vector. Second, the state from (or to) which the optical transition is performed is not from the space of investigated electronic excited state manifold, but it is chosen by the observer. It is shown, for this case, that the inter-state coupling is a general function of vibrational coordinates. The explicit dependence of the inter-state coupling on vibrational coordinates is particularly important for system with strong Stokes shift. The role of exact definitions of bright and dark states as well as the inter-state coupling is discussed with respect to the coherent structure of electronic population observed in optical spectroscopy.     

Control of motional states of a trapped ion

We propose a scheme to drive the vibrational motion of a trapped ion to an arbitrary quantum state from the vacuum state. In the scheme the ion is excited by a sequence of laser pulses tuned to the respective lower vibrational sidebands. Finally, the system evolves into a pure state given by the product of the ground electronic state with the desired vibrational state.