TY - JOUR
T1 - Electron transfer in a microscopically inhomogeneous medium
AU - Rips, Ilya
AU - Jortner, Joshua
PY - 1987/3/12
Y1 - 1987/3/12
N2 - We explore the implications of static disorder on electron transfer (ET) in a microscopically inhomogeneous polar medium, where the environment of each solute is characterized by a single dielectric relaxation time, τ, with the distribution function of τ being related to the complex dielectric susceptibility. For the interesting situation of solvent‐controlled ET, the decay of the population probability is nonexponential, which can be expressed in terms of a cumulant expansion. The microscopic decay function can be related to the macroscopic step‐response function of the dielectric medium.
AB - We explore the implications of static disorder on electron transfer (ET) in a microscopically inhomogeneous polar medium, where the environment of each solute is characterized by a single dielectric relaxation time, τ, with the distribution function of τ being related to the complex dielectric susceptibility. For the interesting situation of solvent‐controlled ET, the decay of the population probability is nonexponential, which can be expressed in terms of a cumulant expansion. The microscopic decay function can be related to the macroscopic step‐response function of the dielectric medium.
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U2 - 10.1002/qua.560320733
DO - 10.1002/qua.560320733
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AN - SCOPUS:84987071692
VL - 32
SP - 313
EP - 319
JO - International Journal of Quantum Chemistry
JF - International Journal of Quantum Chemistry
SN - 0020-7608
IS - 21 S
ER -