Enhancement of vibronic and ground-state vibrational coherences in 2D spectra of photosynthetic complexes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chenu, Aurélia ^a   Christensson, Niklas ^b   Kauffmann, Harald F ^b   Mančal, Tomáš ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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EID: 84879618952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02029     Document Type: Article

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