A unified theory of radiative and radiationless molecular energy transfer

Andrews, David L. (1989) A unified theory of radiative and radiationless molecular energy transfer. Chemical Physics, 135 (2). pp. 195-201. ISSN 0301-0104

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Abstract

Resonant energy transfer by dipolar coupling is generally regarded as occurring through two distinct mechanisms. One mechanism is radiative transfer, in which a photon is emitted by the donor molecule and is subsequently absorbed by an acceptor species. The other mechanism is mediated by a radiationless Coulombic intermolecular interaction. Whilst both the radiative and radiationless mechanisms require an overlap between the emission spectrum of the donor and the absorption spectrum of the acceptor, distinctions are usually drawn between other mechanistic features. However, by developing a fully quantum electrodynamical treatment of the radiationless process, it can be shown that Förster's result arises as the short-range limit of a more general dipoledipole interaction based on virtual photon coupling. At large separations R, retardation effects modify the form of the usual R−6 distance dependence to R−2, and the result can be identified with the classical result for radiative transfer. Hence the radiative and radiationless mechanisms for energy transfer must be regarded as indistinguishable.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Light and Energy Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Physical and Analytical Chemistry (former - to 2017) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Photonics and Quantum Science
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2016 17:10
Last Modified:	15 Jul 2025 23:49
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/56540
DOI:	10.1016/0301-0104(89)87019-3

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