Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7137, 2007, Pages 782-786

  Engel, Gregory S ^a,b   Calhoun, Tessa R ^a,b   Read, Elizabeth L ^a,b   Ahn, Tae Kyu ^a,b   Mančal, Tomáš ^a,b,e   Cheng, Yuan Chung ^a,b   Blankenship, Robert E ^c,d   Fleming, Graham R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL;

CHLOROPHYLL; ENERGY FLOW; FOURIER TRANSFORM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROBIUM; ENERGY TRANSFER; INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; OSCILLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLAR ENERGY;

CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM;

EID: 34147213066     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05678     Document Type: Article

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