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Exciton Interactions

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This chapter considers the excited states and spectroscopic properties of systems with multiple interacting chromophores, including proteins, nucleic acids, and photosynthetic antenna complexes. We make use of the expressions derived in Chap. 7 for dipole-dipole interactions, and extend the transition-monopole treatment to include mixing of intramolecular excitations with charge-transfer transitions. We show how the absorption spectrum of an oligomer depends on the geometry of the complex and the interactions of the chromophores with their surroundings.

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Parson, W.W. (2015). Exciton Interactions. In: Modern Optical Spectroscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46777-0_8

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