Natural organisms such as photosynthetic bacteria, algae, and plants employ complex
molecular machinery to convert solar energy into biochemical fuel. An important common …

18.1 INTRODUCTION property can be utilized if the bacteria are taken as models The
essential processes of photophysics, biochemistry, of the more advanced oxygenic systems …

Coherent exciton delocalization in dye aggregate systems gives rise to a variety of intriguing
optical phenomena, including J-and H-aggregate behavior and Davydov splitting. Systems …

Exciton delocalization in dye aggregate systems is a phenomenon that is revealed by
spectral features, such as Davydov splitting, J-and H-aggregate behavior, and fluorescence …

Nonlinear electronic spectroscopies represent one of the most powerful techniques to study
complex multichromophoric architectures. For these systems, in fact, linear spectra are too …

The chromophores of rhodopsins (Rh) and light-harvesting (LH) complexes still represent a
major challenge for a quantum chemical description due to their size and complex electronic …

The LH2 antenna complexes of purple bacteria occur, depending on light conditions, in
various different spectroscopic forms, with a similar structure but different absorption spectra …

Electronic 2D spectroscopy allows nontrivial quantum effects to be explored in
unprecedented detail. Here, we apply recently developed fluorescence detected coherent …

The spectroscopic properties of light-harvesting (LH) antennae in photosyntehtic organisms
represent a fingerprint that is unique for each specific pigment–protein complex. Because of …

The aggregation ability and exciton dynamics of dyes are largely affected by properties of
the dye monomers. To facilitate aggregation and improve excitonic function, dyes can be …