Role of Coherent Vibrations in Energy Transfer and Conversion in Photosynthetic Pigment-protein Complexes

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Journal Photosynth Res

Publisher Springer

Date 2015 Jan 26

PMID 25618783

Citations 11

Authors

Darius Abramavicius

Leonas Valkunas

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Abstract

Oscillatory features of two-dimensional spectra of photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes during few picoseconds after electronic excitations of chlorophylls in various pigment-proteins were recently related to the coherent nuclear vibrations. It has been also speculated that the vibrations may assist the excitonic energy transfer and charge separation, hence contributing to energy transport and energy conversion efficiency. Here, we consider three theoretical approaches usually used for characterization of the excitation dynamics and charge separation, namely Redfield, Förster, and Marcus model descriptions, regarding this question. We show that two out of the three mechanisms require explicit resonances of excitonic splittings and the nuclear vibration frequencies. However, the third one related to the electron transfer is in principle off resonant.

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