The role of non-equilibrium vibrational structures in electronic coherence and recoherence in pigment-protein complexes

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 113-118

  Chin, A W ^a,b   Prior, J ^c   Rosenbach, R ^a   Caycedo Soler, F ^a   Huelga, S F ^a   Plenio, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINS;

ELECTRONIC COHERENCE; MODELLING AND SIMULATIONS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM PROCESS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC SYSTEMS; PHYSIOLOGICAL TEMPERATURE; PIGMENT-PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN FLUCTUATIONS; VIBRATIONAL STRUCTURES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84873411183     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2515     Document Type: Article

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