Direct evidence of quantum transport in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes

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

Volumn 108, Issue 52, 2011, Pages 20908-20912

  Panitchayangkoon, Gitt ^a   Voronine, Dmitri V ^b   Abramavicius, Darius ^c,d   Caram, Justin R ^a   Lewis, Nicholas H C ^a   Mukamel, Shaul ^e   Engel, Gregory S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d Jilin University   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy transport; Photosynthesis; Quantum biology; Ultrafast phenomena

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

CHLOROBI; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855509693     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105234108     Document Type: Article

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