[PDF][PDF] Dynamics of light harvesting in photosynthesis

YC Cheng, GR Fleming - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2009‏ - esalq.usp.br
We review recent theoretical and experimental advances in the elucidation of the dynamics
of light harvesting in photosynthesis, focusing on recent theoretical developments in …

Coherent multidimensional optical spectroscopy of excitons in molecular aggregates; quasiparticle versus supermolecule perspectives

D Abramavicius, B Palmieri, DV Voronine… - Chemical …, 2009‏ - ACS Publications
Molecular aggregates are abundant in nature; they form spontaneously in concentrated
solutions and on surfaces and can be synthesized by supramolecular chemistry techniques …

Coherence dynamics in photosynthesis: protein protection of excitonic coherence

H Lee, YC Cheng, GR Fleming - Science, 2007‏ - science.org
The role of quantum coherence in promoting the efficiency of the initial stages of
photosynthesis is an open and intriguing question. We performed a two-color photon echo …

Origin of long-lived coherences in light-harvesting complexes

N Christensson, HF Kauffmann… - The Journal of …, 2012‏ - ACS Publications
A vibronic exciton model is applied to explain the long-lived oscillatory features in the two-
dimensional (2D) electronic spectra of the Fenna–Matthews–Olson (FMO) complex. Using …

How proteins trigger excitation energy transfer in the FMO complex of green sulfur bacteria

J Adolphs, T Renger - Biophysical journal, 2006‏ - cell.com
A simple electrostatic method for the calculation of optical transition energies of pigments in
protein environments is presented and applied to the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) …

Exciton–vibrational coupling in the dynamics and spectroscopy of Frenkel excitons in molecular aggregates

M Schröter, SD Ivanov, J Schulze, SP Polyutov, Y Yan… - Physics Reports, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The influence of exciton–vibrational coupling on the optical and transport properties of
molecular aggregates is an old problem that gained renewed interest in recent years. On the …

On the adequacy of the Redfield equation and related approaches to the study of quantum dynamics in electronic energy transfer

A Ishizaki, GR Fleming - The Journal of chemical physics, 2009‏ - pubs.aip.org
The observation of long-lived electronic coherence in photosynthetic excitation energy
transfer (EET) by Engel et al [Nature (London) 446, 782 (2007)] raises questions about the …

[ספר][B] Modern optical spectroscopy

WW Parson - 2007‏ - Springer
2 1 Introduction the most salient points are just that a molecule can exist in a variety of states
depending on how its electrons are distributed among a set of molecular orbitals, and that …

Energy transfer in photosynthesis: experimental insights and quantitative models

R van Grondelle, VI Novoderezhkin - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2006‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We overview experimental and theoretical studies of energy transfer in the photosynthetic
light-harvesting complexes LH1, LH2, and LHCII performed during the past decade since …

On the relation of protein dynamics and exciton relaxation in pigment–protein complexes: An estimation of the spectral density and a theory for the calculation of …

T Renger, RA Marcus - The Journal of chemical physics, 2002‏ - pubs.aip.org
A theory for calculating time–and frequency–domain optical spectra of pigment–protein
complexes is presented using a density matrix approach. Non-Markovian effects in the …