Quantum chemical studies of light harvesting

C Curutchet, B Mennucci - Chemical reviews, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
The design of optimal light-harvesting (supra) molecular systems and materials is one of the
most challenging frontiers of science. Theoretical methods and computational models play a …

Delocalized excitons in natural light-harvesting complexes

SJ Jang, B Mennucci - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018‏ - APS
Natural organisms such as photosynthetic bacteria, algae, and plants employ complex
molecular machinery to convert solar energy into biochemical fuel. An important common …

Semiclassical path integral dynamics: Photosynthetic energy transfer with realistic environment interactions

MK Lee, P Huo, DF Coker - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent progress in the theoretical modeling of excitation energy transfer
(EET) processes in natural light harvesting complexes. The iterative partial linearized …

Modeling electronic-nuclear interactions for excitation energy transfer processes in light-harvesting complexes

MK Lee, DF Coker - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
An accurate approach for computing intermolecular and intrachromophore contributions to
spectral densities to describe the electronic–nuclear interactions relevant for modeling …

DFTB/MM molecular dynamics simulations of the FMO light-harvesting complex

S Maity, BM Bold, JD Prajapati, M Sokolov… - The Journal of …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Because of the size of light-harvesting complexes and the involvement of electronic degrees
of freedom, computationally these systems need to be treated with a combined quantum …

Influence of Force Fields and Quantum Chemistry Approach on Spectral Densities of BChl a in Solution and in FMO Proteins

S Chandrasekaran, M Aghtar, S Valleau… - The Journal of …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Studies on light-harvesting (LH) systems have attracted much attention after the finding of
long-lived quantum coherences in the exciton dynamics of the Fenna–Matthews–Olson …

Local protein solvation drives direct down-conversion in phycobiliprotein PC645 via incoherent vibronic transport

SM Blau, DIG Bennett, C Kreisbeck, GD Scholes… - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - pnas.org
The mechanisms controlling excitation energy transport (EET) in light-harvesting complexes
remain controversial. Following the observation of long-lived beats in 2D electronic …

Multiscale QM/MM molecular dynamics simulations of the trimeric major light-harvesting complex II

S Maity, V Daskalakis, M Elstner… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Photosynthetic processes are driven by sunlight. Too little of it and the photosynthetic
machinery cannot produce the reductive power to drive the anabolic pathways. Too much …

Theoretical characterization of the spectral density of the water-soluble chlorophyll-binding protein from combined quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics …

AM Rosnik, C Curutchet - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, both experimentalists and theorists have worked to develop methods
to describe pigment–protein coupling in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes in order …

Classical force fields tailored for QM applications: Is it really a feasible strategy?

O Andreussi, IG Prandi, M Campetella… - Journal of chemical …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Classical molecular dynamics is more and more often coupled to quantum mechanical
based techniques as a statistical tool to sample configurations of molecular systems …