Time scales of coherent dynamics in the light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) of rhodobacter sphaeroides

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1404-1409

  Fidler, Andrew F ^a   Singh, Ved P ^a   Long, Phillip D ^b   Dahlberg, Peter D ^b   Engel, Gregory S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

biophysics; dynamics; excited states; spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

COHERENT DYNAMICS; DEPHASING; DEPHASING RATES; ELECTRONIC MOTIONS; LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTROSCOPIC TRANSITIONS; TIME-SCALES;

BIOPHYSICS; CHROMOPHORES; DYNAMICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84877132841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400438m     Document Type: Article

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