Consistent treatment of coherent and incoherent energy transfer dynamics using a variational master equation
Consistent treatment of coherent and incoherent energy transfer dynamics using a variational master equation
We investigate the energy transfer dynamics in a donor-acceptor model by developing a time-local master equation technique based on a variational transformation of the underlying Hamiltonian. The variational transformation allows a minimisation of the Hamiltonian perturbation term dependent on the system parameters, and consequently results in a versatile master equation …