Physical basis for long-lived electronic coherence in photosynthetic light-harvesting systems

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 2728-2732

  Pachón, Leonardo A ^a   Brumer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; DECOHERENCE; DECOHERENCE TIME SCALE; DIMER MODEL; ELECTRONIC COHERENCE; EXCITONIC STATE; LIGHT-HARVESTING SYSTEMS; LOW-TEMPERATURE REGIME; MOLECULAR CHARACTERISTICS; PARAMETER DEPENDENCE; PHYSICAL FEATURES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SMALL ENERGY; SOLUBLE MODELS;

DIMERS; ENERGY GAP; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLIDS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 80455158212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz201189p     Document Type: Article

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