Summary: Excited­state reversible geminate recombination with quenching
in one dimension
Hyojoon Kim and Kook Joe Shin a)
Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Catalysis, Seoul National University, Seoul 151­742,
Korea
Noam Agmon b)
The Fritz Haber Research Center, Department of Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University,
Jerusalem 91904, Israel
#Received 5 April 1999; accepted 3 June 1999#
We obtain the exact Green function for excited­state geminate reversible dissociation with two
different lifetimes and quenching in one dimension, in the absence of a potential of interaction. We
consider the ground­state and irreversible reactions as special limits, and investigate the long time
asymptotic behavior in comparison with that observed in three dimensions. © 1999 American
Institute of Physics. #S0021­9606#99#50633­8#
I. INTRODUCTION
Reversible diffusion­influenced reactions attract increas­
ing attention. Recently, an interesting transition has been dis­
covered in the approximate long time asymptotic solution for
geminate excited­state reversible recombination with two
different lifetimes, 1,2 even in the presence of contact gemi­

Source: Agmon, Noam - Institute of Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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