EFFICIENT NUMERICAL-SIMULATION OF THE TIME-DEPENDENCE OF ELECTRONIC-ENERGY TRANSFER IN POLYMERS .3. DEPOLARIZATION, FORSTER TRANSFER, AND TRAPPING

Statistical ensembles of polymer configurations have been generated using the pivot algorithm with interaction energy for the calculation of the time dependence of the survival probability of a donor excited state in the presence of down-chain Forster dipole-dipole transfer between polymer chromophores with simultaneous Forster trapping and of the depolarization without trapping. Five methods of placing traps on the polymer coil have been investigated, with a discussion of the applicability of the various methods to the observed behavior of the fluorescence decay.