Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.117, No.24, 11089-11101, 2002
Correlated line broadening in multidimensional vibrational spectroscopy
The third-order optical response of two coupled anharmonic vibrations interacting with a Brownian oscillator bath that induces energy level fluctuations with arbitrary time scales and degree of correlation is calculated. Two-dimensional correlation plots show distinct signatures of these fluctuations in the various possible three pulse, infrared, femtosecond techniques.