Fluorescence microscopy on single light-harvesting complexes

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Tietz ◽  
Alexander Draebenstedt ◽  
Joerg Schuster ◽  
Joerg Wrachtrup
Keyword(s):  
Fluorescence Microscopy ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Light Harvesting Complexes

scholarly journals Noise-Assisted Discord-Like Correlations in Light-Harvesting Photosynthetic Complexes

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-271
Author(s):  
Pablo Reséndiz-Vázquez ◽  
Ricardo Román-Ancheyta ◽  
Roberto León-Montiel
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Energy Transport ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Quantum Correlations ◽  
Transport Processes ◽  
Quantum Evolution ◽  
Light Harvesting Complexes ◽  
Transport Efficiency ◽  
Photovoltaic Materials ◽  
Photosynthetic Complexes

Transport phenomena in photosynthetic systems have attracted a great deal of attention due to their potential role in devising novel photovoltaic materials. In particular, energy transport in light-harvesting complexes is considered quite efficient due to the balance between coherent quantum evolution and decoherence, a phenomenon coined Environment-Assisted Quantum Transport (ENAQT). Although this effect has been extensively studied, its behavior is typically described in terms of the decoherence’s strength, namely weak, moderate or strong. Here, we study the ENAQT in terms of quantum correlations that go beyond entanglement. Using a subsystem of the Fenna–Matthews–Olson complex, we find that discord-like correlations maximize when the subsystem’s transport efficiency increases, while the entanglement between sites vanishes. Our results suggest that quantum discord is a manifestation of the ENAQT and highlight the importance of beyond-entanglement correlations in photosynthetic energy transport processes.

scholarly journals Uncovering the interactions driving carotenoid binding in light-harvesting complexes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Mascoli ◽  
Nicoletta Liguori ◽  
Lorenzo Cupellini ◽  
Eduard Elias ◽  
Benedetta Mennucci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Stability ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Light Harvesting Complexes

Carotenoids are essential constituents of plant light-harvesting complexes (LHCs), being involved in protein stability, light harvesting, and photoprotection. Unlike chlorophylls, whose binding to LHCs is known to require coordination of...

scholarly journals The molecular mechanisms of light adaption in light-harvesting complexes of purple bacteria revealed by a multiscale modeling

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (42) ◽  
pp. 9650-9662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Cardoso Ramos ◽  
Michele Nottoli ◽  
Lorenzo Cupellini ◽  
Benedetta Mennucci
Keyword(s):  
Multiscale Modeling ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Purple Bacteria ◽  
Spectral Tuning ◽  
Light Harvesting Complexes

The spectral tuning of LH2 antenna complexes arises from H-bonding, acetyl torsion, and inter-chromophore couplings.

Quantum Coherent Energy Transfer over Varying Pathways in Single Light-Harvesting Complexes

Science ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 340 (6139) ◽  
pp. 1448-1451 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Hildner ◽  
D. Brinks ◽  
J. B. Nieder ◽  
R. J. Cogdell ◽  
N. F. van Hulst
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Light Harvesting Complexes

Open quantum system parameters for light harvesting complexes from molecular dynamics

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (38) ◽  
pp. 25629-25641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoqing Wang ◽  
Gerhard Ritschel ◽  
Sebastian Wüster ◽  
Alexander Eisfeld
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Dynamics ◽  
Quantum System ◽  
Open Quantum System ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Parameter Extraction ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Light Harvesting Complexes ◽  
System Parameters ◽  
Open Quantum ◽  
The Difference

We elucidate the difference between various parameter extraction methods and demonstrate sensitivity to molecular dynamics equilibration.

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