Arend Dijkstra

My research focuses on energy transport in complex materials. Unlike traditional materials studied in physics, many systems of current interest, such as those found in biology and artificial organic electronics, are disordered and warm. I am interested in the movement of energy through such materials and the importance of quantum effects. In the past I have worked on amide vibrations in peptides, electronic excitations in biological light-harvesting complexes and DNA and on problems in quantum information theory. In order to make a comparison with experiment possible I calculate not only the energy dynamics but also (nonlinear) optical observables, in particular, two-dimensional spectra.

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