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Yuan-Chung Cheng
Room A707, Chemistry Building
Research Interests
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Excited-state quantum dynamics in condensed-phase molecular systems |
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Theory for excitation energy and charge transfer in photosynthesis |
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Theory for radiationless relaxation of electronic excitations in nano-systems and its applications in optoelectronic devices |
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Photochemistry in nanoscale molecular systems |
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Theory for multiscale modeling of disordered organic materials |
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Theory for time-resolved nonlinear spectroscopy |
Career
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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. |

Representative Publication
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Cheng, Y.-C. and Fleming ,G. R. "Dynamics of light harvesting in photosynthesis" Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. 2009, 60, 241. |
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Cheng, Y.-C. and Silbey, R. J. "A unified theory for charge-carrier transport in organic crystals" J. Chem. Phys. 2008, 128, 114713. |
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Jang, S.;Cheng, Y.-C.; Reichman, D. R.;Eaves, J. D. "Theory of coherent resonance energy transfer" J. Chem. Phys. 2008, 129, 101104. |
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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. |
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Cheng, Y.-C. and Fleming G. R. "Coherence quantum beats in two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy" J. Phys. Chem. A 2008, 112, 4254. |
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Lee, H.; Cheng, Y.-C.; Fleming, G. R. "Coherence dynamics in photosynthesis: protein protection of excitonic coherence" Science 2007, 316, 1462. |
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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. |
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Cheng, Y.-C. and Silbey, R. J. "Coherence in the B800 ring of purple bacteria LH2" Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006, 96, 028103. |
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Cheng, Y.-C. and Silbey R. J., "Markovian approximation in the relaxation of quantum open systems" J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 21399. |
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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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