Interplay of creation, propagation, and relaxation of an excitation in a dimer Original Research Article

Interplay of simultaneous creation, annihilation, propagation, and relaxation of an excitation in molecular condensates interacting with an ultrashort quantum optical pulse is studied in general and specialized to a dimer. A microscopic model appropriate for such systems (with a strong exciton–phonon coupling) is presented. It also incorporates effects of (quantum) noise in the optical field. A variety of new features in the initial stage of excitation dynamics (when it is being created) is revealed; a strong influence of the coherent excitation propagation on the processes of excitation creation and annihilation in a molecule strongly interacting with phonons is the most remarkable one.