Efficient energy transfer in light-harvesting systems, III: The influence of the eighth bacteriochlorophyll on the dynamics and efficiency in FMO

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 3045-3052

  Moix, Jeremy ^a,b,e   Wu, Jianlan ^c,e   Huo, Pengfei ^d   Coker, David ^d,f   Cao, Jianshu ^a,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Boston University   (United States)

^e SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Medium Effects; Statistical Mechanics; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; EFFICIENT ENERGY TRANSFER; INITIAL PREPARATION; LIGHT-HARVESTING SYSTEMS; MEDIUM EFFECT; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTIMAL VALUES; POPULATION RELAXATION; PROTEIN COMPLEXES;

CHROMOPHORES; ENERGY TRANSFER; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84856738687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz201259v     Document Type: Article

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