Exciton–vibrational coupling in the dynamics and spectroscopy of Frenkel excitons in molecular aggregates

M Schröter, SD Ivanov, J Schulze, SP Polyutov, Y Yan… - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
The influence of exciton–vibrational coupling on the optical and transport properties of
molecular aggregates is an old problem that gained renewed interest in recent years. On the …

Semiclassical path integral dynamics: Photosynthetic energy transfer with realistic environment interactions

MK Lee, P Huo, DF Coker - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent progress in the theoretical modeling of excitation energy transfer
(EET) processes in natural light harvesting complexes. The iterative partial linearized …

Vibronic mixing enables ultrafast energy flow in light-harvesting complex II

EA Arsenault, Y Yoneda, M Iwai, KK Niyogi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Since the discovery of quantum beats in the two-dimensional electronic spectra of
photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes over a decade ago, the origin and mechanistic …

Modeling electronic-nuclear interactions for excitation energy transfer processes in light-harvesting complexes

MK Lee, DF Coker - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
An accurate approach for computing intermolecular and intrachromophore contributions to
spectral densities to describe the electronic–nuclear interactions relevant for modeling …

Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy and photosynthesis: Fundamentals and applications to photosynthetic light-harvesting

GS Schlau-Cohen, A Ishizaki, GR Fleming - Chemical Physics, 2011 - Elsevier
In natural light harvesting systems, pigment-protein complexes are able to harvest sunlight
with near unity quantum efficiency. These complexes exhibit emergent properties that …

Elucidation of the timescales and origins of quantum electronic coherence in LHCII

GS Schlau-Cohen, A Ishizaki, TR Calhoun… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Photosynthetic organisms harvest sunlight with near unity quantum efficiency. The
complexity of the electronic structure and energy transfer pathways within networks of …

Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of photosynthetic systems

T Kondo, WJ Chen, GS Schlau-Cohen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Photosynthesis begins when a network of pigment–protein complexes captures solar energy
and transports it to the reaction center, where charge separation occurs. When necessary …

Design principles of photosynthetic light-harvesting

GR Fleming, GS Schlau-Cohen, K Amarnath… - Faraday …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Photosynthetic organisms are capable of harvesting solar energy with near unity quantum
efficiency. Even more impressively, this efficiency can be regulated in response to the …

Site selective and single complex laser-based spectroscopies: a window on excited state electronic structure, excitation energy transfer, and electron–phonon …

R Jankowiak, M Reppert, V Zazubovich… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
In photosynthesis, light is harvested and its energy is used to produce the various biological
components that support nearly all life on earth. It is oxygenic photosynthesis that led to the …

Quantum coherences reveal excited-state dynamics in biophysical systems

L Wang, MA Allodi, GS Engel - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Ultrafast, multi-dimensional spectroscopic measurements of photosynthetic light-harvesting
complexes have revealed quantum coherences with timescales comparable to those of …