Quest for spatially correlated fluctuations in the FMO light-harvesting complex

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 758-764

  Olbrich, Carsten ^a   Strümpfer, Johan ^b   Schulten, Klaus ^b   Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; COUPLINGS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; ATOMIC LEVELS; CLASSICAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; COARSE-GRAINED; CORRELATED FLUCTUATIONS; ELECTRONIC COUPLING; LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX; LOW TEMPERATURES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY CALCULATIONS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; WEAK CORRELATION;

CHROMOPHORES;

EID: 79952099133     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp1099514     Document Type: Article

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