Measures and implications of electronic coherence in photosynthetic light-harvesting

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1972, 2012, Pages 3728-3749

  Smyth, Cathal ^a   Fassioli, Francesca ^b   Scholes, Gregory D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

B850; Delocalization; Electronic coherence; Electronic energy transfer; Entanglement; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

B850; DELOCALIZATIONS; ELECTRONIC COHERENCE; ELECTRONIC ENERGY TRANSFER; ENTANGLEMENT;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84863649804     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0420     Document Type: Article

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