QM/MM modeling of environmental effects on electronic transitions of the FMO complex

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 3488-3495

  Gao, Junkuo ^a   Shi, Wu Jun ^a   Ye, Jun ^b   Wang, Xiaoqing ^c   Hirao, Hajime ^c   Zhao, Yang ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION ENERGY; EXCITONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEINS; REACTION KINETICS;

BROWNIAN OSCILLATORS; EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTRONIC TRANSITION; GREEN SULFUR BACTERIA; LIGHT-HARVESTING ANTENNAS; LINEAR ABSORPTION SPECTRA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PIGMENT-PROTEIN COMPLEXES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84875774777     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp3109418     Document Type: Article

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