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Yuan-Chung Cheng
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Research Interests

Excited-state quantum dynamics in condensed-phase molecular systems
Theory for excitation energy and charge transfer in photosynthesis
Theory for radiationless relaxation of electronic excitations in nano-systems and its applications in optoelectronic devices
Photochemistry in nanoscale molecular systems
Theory for multiscale modeling of disordered organic materials
Theory for time-resolved nonlinear spectroscopy
 
 

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Career

B.S. 1995; M.S. 1997, National Taiwan University; Ph.D. 2006, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Postdoctoral Research Associate 2006-2009, University of California, Berkeley; Assistant Professor 2009-,  National Taiwan University.
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Representative Publication

1.
Cheng, Y.-C. and Fleming ,G. R. "Dynamics of light harvesting in photosynthesis" Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. 2009, 60, 241.
2.
Cheng, Y.-C. and Silbey, R. J. "A unified theory for charge-carrier transport in organic crystals" J. Chem. Phys. 2008, 128, 114713.
3.
Jang, S.;Cheng, Y.-C.; Reichman, D. R.;Eaves, J. D. "Theory of coherent resonance energy transfer" J. Chem. Phys. 2008, 129, 101104.
4.
Ahn, T.; Avenson, T. J.; Ballottari, M.; Cheng, Y.-C.; Niyogi, K. K.; Bassi, R.; Fleming, G. R. "Architecture of a charge-transfer state regulating light harvesting in a plant antenna protein" Science 2008, 320, 794.
5.
Cheng, Y.-C. and Fleming G. R. "Coherence quantum beats in two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy" J. Phys. Chem. A 2008, 112, 4254.
6.
Lee, H.; Cheng, Y.-C.; Fleming, G. R. "Coherence dynamics in photosynthesis: protein protection of excitonic coherence" Science 2007, 316, 1462.
7.
Engel, G. S.; Calhoun, T. R.; Read, E. L.; Ahn, T. K.; Mancal, T.; Cheng, Y.-C.; Blankenship, R. E.; Fleming, G. R. "Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems" Nature 2007, 446, 782.
8.
Cheng, Y.-C. and Silbey, R. J. "Coherence in the B800 ring of purple bacteria LH2" Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006, 96, 028103.
9.
Cheng, Y.-C. and Silbey R. J., "Markovian approximation in the relaxation of quantum open systems" J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 21399.
10.
Cheng, Y.-C. and Silbey R. J., "A microscopic quantum dynamics study on the noise threshold of fault-tolerant quantum error correction" Phys. Rev. A 2005, 72, 012320.
 
 
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