Beatings in electronic 2D spectroscopy suggest another role of vibrations in photosynthetic light harvesting

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

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1148-1149

  Pullerits, Tõnu ^a   Zigmantas, Donatas ^a   Sundström, Villy ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

2D SPECTROSCOPY; ANISOTROPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NOTE; OSCILLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATION;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84872863009     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221058110     Document Type: Note

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