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Design of Optimal Laser fields to control vibrational excitations in Carboxy-myoglobinAuthors: Harjinder Singh,Sitansh Sharma,Jeremy N Harvey,Praveen Kumar,Gabriel G Balint-Kurti Conference: Proceedings of International Conference of Computer Science, Crackow, Poland, June 2008 Date: 2008-06-21 Report no: IIIT/TR/2008/85 AbstractThe last two decades have seen increasing interest in the area of controlling dynamics at the atomic level. Among the several approaches used, Optimal Control Theory (OCT) has emerged as a powerful method for designing laser pulses to achieve prescribed dynamical goals. We have used OCT to obtain infrared laser pulses for the selective vibrational excitation of several different systems, from a simple diatomic to triatomics located in complex molecular environments. We use time dependent quantum mechanics to monitor the evolution of the system subject to a varying laser field. We have obtained fields for vibrational control of the diatomic system HF applying OCT using different algorithms, namely an iterative method, conjugate gradient method and genetic algorithms. The time-dependent quantum mechanical propagation of the system is achieved using the split operator form of the time evolution operator together with Fast Fourier transforms and grid methods. For the modelling of FeCO in carboxy-myoglobin, we use a two mathematical dimensional model. Density functional theory is used to obtain the potential energy and dipole moment surfaces of the active site model, while the conjugate gradient method is employed within the OCT optimization procedure to obtain the laser pulses. Optimized laser fields are found which give virtually 100% excitation probability to preselected vibrational levels. A similar application to a hydrogen bonded system of biological significance will also be presented. In all cases, detailed analyses of the field are carried out in terms of its power spectrum and the time variation of the contributions from the frequencies involved. Full paper: pdf Centre for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics |
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