Double-quantum resonances and exciton-scattering in coherent 2D spectroscopy of photosynthetic complexes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 8525-8530

  Abramavicius, Darius ^a   Voronine, Dmitri V ^a,b   Mukamel, Shaul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exciton transport; Femtosecond spectroscopy; Light harvesting; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

ENERGY TRANSFER; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 47249090859     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802926105     Document Type: Article

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