An efficient method to calculate excitation energy transfer in light-harvesting systems: application to the Fenna–Matthews–Olson complex
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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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- Ritschel, G., Roden, J., Strunz, W. T., & Eisfeld, A.
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- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (DE)
- Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Eisfeld, Alexander
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- 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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