Visual Electronic Dynamics Quantum Dynamics One of the important problems in many subjects of physics is to study quantum dynamics among states which have specific energetics or are coupled to kinds of heat bath and other degree of freedoms. The problem amounts to solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation in order to get detailed information about quantum propogation.
Electron transfer is typically such an issue.
An electron transfer reaction normally involves a donor, which provides the electron, an acceptor, which is thought of as taking the electron, and a bridge between them, which has a structure, topoligically, energetically or chemically. Electron transfer reaction in biological systems is widely believed to be dependent on the structural motif of the bridge, which assists transfer by offering superexchange couplings to the donor and acceptor. The Biophysical Group at University of Cyprus has been performing simulation of electron transfer dynamics in photosynthetically important blue copper proteins. On this page, you will not see the presentations of the results. Rather we show you very simple models that basically explain what we have done and what we are thinking about.