Microscopic quantum coherence in a photosynthetic-light-harvesting antenna

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

Volumn 370, Issue 1972, 2012, Pages 3672-3691

  Dawlaty, Jahan M ^a   Ishizaki, Akihito ^b   De, Arijit K ^a,c   Fleming, Graham R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoherence; Ensemble averaging; Photosynthesis; Quantum coherence; Single molecule spectroscopy; Two dimensional electronic spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTS; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DECOHERENCE; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; QUANTUM COHERENCE; SINGLE-MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPIES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

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: 84863653815     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0207     Document Type: Article

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