Photosynthetic organisms flourish under low light intensities by converting photoenergy to
chemical energy with near unity quantum efficiency and under high light intensities by safely …

Over the last several decades, the light-harvesting protein complexes of purple bacteria
have been among the most popular model systems for energy transport in excitonic systems …

Photosynthetic light-harvesting antennae direct energy collected from sunlight to reaction
centers with remarkable efficiency and rapidity. Despite their common function, the pigment …

Energy transfer and trapping in the light harvesting antennae of purple photosynthetic
bacteria is an ultrafast process, which occurs with a quantum efficiency close to unity …

Photosynthetic purple bacteria convert solar energy to chemical energy with near unity
quantum efficiency. The light-harvesting process begins with absorption of solar energy by …

This paper reports a detailed spectroscopic study of the B800 absorption band of individual
light-harvesting 2 (LH2) complexes of the photosynthetic purple bacterium …

We have investigated the energy landscape of the bacterial photosynthetic peripheral light-
harvesting complex LH2 of purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila by monitoring …

Light-harvesting antenna complexes transfer energy from sunlight to photosynthetic reaction
centers where charge separation drives cellular metabolism. The process through which …

In bacterial photosynthesis light-harvesting complexes, LH2 and LH1 absorb sunlight
energy and deliver it to reaction centers (RCs) with extraordinarily high efficiency …

A long-standing uncertainty has been resolved concerning the early time evolution of light
excitations in LH2 antennas of purple photosynthetic bacteria. Both isolated and native …