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An efficient method to calculate excitation energy transfer in light-harvesting systems: application to the Fenna–Matthews–Olson complex

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Ritschel, Gerhard, Roden, Jan, Strunz, Walter T, Eisfeld, Alexander·2011·New Journal of Physics

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A master equation derived from non-Markovian quantum state diffusion is used to calculate the excitation energy transfer in the photosynthetic Fenna–Matthews–Olson pigment–protein complex at various temperatures. This approach allows us to treat spectral densities that explicitly contain the coupling to internal vibrational modes of the chromophores. Moreover, the method is very efficient and as a result the transfer dynamics can be calculated within about 1 min on a standard PC, making systematic investigations w.r.t. parameter variations tractable. After demonstrating that our approach is able to reproduce the results of the numerically exact hierarchical equations of motion approach, we show how the inclusion of vibrational modes influences the transfer.

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  • Traditional perturbative treatments (Lindblad, Redfield, modified Redfield) do not well model structured environments and non-perturbative coupling.

    “Both features are not well modeled by the traditional perturbative treatments that lead to master equations of Lindblad [139, 140], Redfield [141] or modified Redfield type [46, 142, 143] (see [60] for a review of master equations).”

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Authors
Ritschel, G., Roden, J., Strunz, W. T., & Eisfeld, A.
Affiliations
  • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (DE)
  • Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
  • Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
Eisfeld, Alexander
Venue
New Journal of Physics
Published
2011-11-25
Volume
13
Issue
11
Pages
113034
ISSN
1367-2630 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1528560063
Cited by
88
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53
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4.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
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cc-by
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  • New Journal of Physics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Ei 872/1-1, 872/1-1)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Strong Light-Matter Interactions
Keywords
excitation energy transfer, Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex, light-harvesting complexes, photosynthesis, master equation, power spectrum, vibrational modes, chromophores, temperature dependence, hierarchical equations of motion

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