PMID- 29985004 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20180803 LR - 20180803 IS - 1520-5215 (Electronic) IS - 1089-5639 (Linking) VI - 122 IP - 30 DP - 2018 Aug 2 TI - Spectral Filtering as a Tool for Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy: A Theoretical Model. PG - 6206-6213 LID - 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b03339 [doi] AB - Two-dimensional optical spectroscopy is a powerful technique for the probing of coherent quantum superpositions. Recently, the finite width of the laser spectrum has been employed to selectively tune experiments for the study of particular coherences. This involves the exclusion of certain transition frequencies, which results in the elimination of specific Liouville pathways. The rigorous analysis of such experiments requires the use of ever more sophisticated theoretical models for the optical spectroscopy of electronic and vibronic systems. Here we develop a nonimpulsive and non-Markovian model, which combines an explicit definition of the laser spectrum, via the equation of motion-phase matching approach (EOM-PMA), with the hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM). This theoretical framework is capable of simulating the 2D spectroscopy of vibronic systems with low frequency modes, coupled to environments of intermediate and slower time scales. In order to demonstrate the spectral filtering of vibronic coherences, we examine the elimination of lower energy peaks from the 2D spectra of a zinc porphyrin monomer upon blue-shifting the laser spectrum. The filtering of Liouville pathways is revealed through the disappearance of peaks from the amplitude spectra for a coupled vibrational mode. FAU - Green, Dale AU - Green D AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2549-0486 AD - School of Chemistry , University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ , U.K. FAU - V A Camargo, Franco AU - V A Camargo F AD - School of Chemistry , University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ , U.K. AD - CAPES Foundation , Ministry of Education of Brazil , Brasilia DF 70040-202 , Brazil. FAU - Heisler, Ismael A AU - Heisler IA AD - School of Chemistry , University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ , U.K. FAU - Dijkstra, Arend G AU - Dijkstra AG AD - School of Chemistry , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K. FAU - Jones, Garth A AU - Jones GA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2984-1711 AD - School of Chemistry , University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ , U.K. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180723 PL - United States TA - J Phys Chem A JT - The journal of physical chemistry. A JID - 9890903 EDAT- 2018/07/10 06:00 MHDA- 2018/07/10 06:01 CRDT- 2018/07/10 06:00 PHST- 2018/07/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/07/10 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/07/10 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b03339 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Phys Chem A. 2018 Aug 2;122(30):6206-6213. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b03339. Epub 2018 Jul 23.