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 …

Beyond Forster resonance energy transfer in biological and nanoscale systems

D Beljonne, C Curutchet, GD Scholes… - The journal of physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
After photoexcitation, energy absorbed by a molecule can be transferred efficiently over a
distance of up to several tens of angstroms to another molecule by the process of resonance …

Light harvesting complex II B850 excitation dynamics

J Strümpfer, K Schulten - The Journal of chemical physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamics of excitation energy transfer within the B850 ring of light harvesting complex 2
from Rhodobacter sphaeroides and between neighboring B850 rings is investigated by …

Cryo-EM structure of a Ca2+-bound photosynthetic LH1-RC complex containing multiple αβ-polypeptides

K Tani, R Kanno, Y Makino, M Hall… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The light-harvesting-reaction center complex (LH1-RC) from the purple phototrophic
bacterium Thiorhodovibrio strain 970 exhibits an LH1 absorption maximum at 960 nm, the …

The effect of correlated bath fluctuations on exciton transfer

J Strümpfer, K Schulten - The Journal of chemical physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Excitation dynamics of various light harvesting systems have been investigated with many
theoretical methods including various non-Markovian descriptions of dissipative quantum …

Spectral modulation of B850 bacteriochlorophyll a in light-harvesting complex 2 from purple photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum by detergents and …

Y Saga, Y Sasamoto, K Inada, ZY Wang-Otomo… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2024 - Elsevier
Spectral variations of light-harvesting (LH) proteins of purple photosynthetic bacteria provide
insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying spectral tuning of circular …

Davydov Splitting of Excitons in Cyclic Bacteriochlorophyll a Nanoaggregates of Bacterial Light‐Harvesting Complexes between 4.5 and 263 K

M Pajusalu, M Rätsep, G Trinkunas… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The nature of electronic excitations created by photon absorption in the cyclic B850
aggregates of 18 bacteriochlorophyll molecules of LH2 antenna complexes of …

Static and dynamic disorder in bacterial light-harvesting complex LH2: A 2DES simulation study

O Rancova, D Abramavicius - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional coherent electronic spectroscopy (2DES) is a powerful technique in
distinguishing homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening contributions to the spectral …

Polaronic effects at finite temperatures in the B850 ring of the LH2 complex

V Chorošajev, O Rancova… - Physical Chemistry …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Energy transfer and relaxation dynamics in the B850 ring of LH2 molecular aggregates are
described, taking into account the polaronic effects, by a stochastic time-dependent …

Low light adaptation: energy transfer processes in different types of light harvesting complexes from Rhodopseudomonas palustris

V Moulisová, L Luer, S Hoseinkhani… - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
Energy transfer processes in photosynthetic light harvesting 2 (LH2) complexes isolated
from purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris grown at different light intensities were …