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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 108, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.218302
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- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
- CIPSM cluster
- A.-v. Humboldt Stiftung
- [SFB 749]
- [SFB 925]
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We show that Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) in an orthogonally arranged donor-acceptor pair can be induced by environmental noise, although direct transfer is prohibited. Environmental fluctuations break the strict orthogonal dipole arrangement and cause effective fluctuating excitonic interactions. Using a scaling argument, we show that interaction fluctuations are coupled to those of the energy levels and are strong enough to induce large FRET rates. This mechanism also explains the temperature dependence observed in a recent experiment on a perylene bisimide dyad and predicts a modified distance dependence as compared to standard Forster theory.
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