The fundamental role of quantized vibrations in coherent light harvesting by cryptophyte algae.

A. Kolli; Edward O'Reilly; G. Scholes; A. Olaya-Castro

DOI:10.1063/1.4764100

Corpus ID: 20156821

The fundamental role of quantized vibrations in coherent light harvesting by cryptophyte algae.

@article{Kolli2012TheFR,
  title={The fundamental role of quantized vibrations in coherent light harvesting by cryptophyte algae.},
  author={A. Kolli and Edward O'Reilly and G. Scholes and A. Olaya-Castro},
  journal={The Journal of chemical physics},
  year={2012},
  volume={137 17},
  pages={
          174109
        }
}

A. Kolli, Edward O'Reilly, +1 author A. Olaya-Castro

Published 2012

Chemistry, Medicine, Physics

The Journal of chemical physics

The influence of fast vibrations on energy transfer and conversion in natural molecular aggregates is an issue of central interest. This article shows the important role of high-energy quantized vibrations and their non-equilibrium dynamics for energy transfer in photosynthetic systems with highly localized excitonic states. We consider the cryptophyte antennae protein phycoerythrin 545 and show that coupling to quantized vibrations, which are quasi-resonant with excitonic transitions is… CONTINUE READING

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