Davydov Splitting of Excitons in Cyclic Bacteriochlorophyll a Nanoaggregates of Bacterial Light‐Harvesting Complexes between 4.5 and 263 K

M Pajusalu, M Rätsep, G Trinkunas… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
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The nature of electronic excitations created by photon absorption in the cyclic B850
aggregates of 18 bacteriochlorophyll molecules of LH2 antenna complexes of
photosynthetic bacteria is studied over a broad temperature range using absorption,
fluorescence, and fluorescence anisotropy spectra. The latter technique has been proved to
be suitable for revealing the hidden structure of excitons in inhomogeneously broadened
spectra of cyclic aggregates. A theoretical model that accounts for differences of absorbing …
Abstract
The nature of electronic excitations created by photon absorption in the cyclic B850 aggregates of 18 bacteriochlorophyll molecules of LH2 antenna complexes of photosynthetic bacteria is studied over a broad temperature range using absorption, fluorescence, and fluorescence anisotropy spectra. The latter technique has been proved to be suitable for revealing the hidden structure of excitons in inhomogeneously broadened spectra of cyclic aggregates. A theoretical model that accounts for differences of absorbing excitons in undeformed and emitting exciton polarons in deformed antenna lattices is also developed. Only a slight decrease of the exciton bandwidth and exciton coupling energy with temperature is observed. Survival of excitons in the whole temperature span from cryogenic to nearly ambient temperatures strongly suggests that collective, coherent electronic excitations might play a role in the functional light‐harvesting process taking place at physiological temperatures.
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