Singlet fission is the production of two triplet excitons from one singlet exciton. Understanding this process is key to developing next generation photovoltaics which harvest more of the sun’s energy.

We used tools from decoherence theory to understand how this process depends on thermal fluctuations and movement of the photo-active molecules.

Quantum information theory making a difference in chemistry and green energy!! 😎🌞

#excitonscience #rmituniversity #UNSW

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-023-01177-1

Great to start the penultimate day of our #ExcitonScience annual meeting with a talk from my favourite* open quantums system theorist, @quantschmant, opening with a remarkably approachable and intelligible description of what his field actually is.

*please don't ask me to name any other #OpenQuantumSystems researchers