Quantification of non-Markovian effects in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex

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Erscheinungsjahr:
2013
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Schlagworte:
  • Excitons
  • Energy transfer
  • FMO complex
  • Photosystem II Protein Complex
  • Photosynthesis
  • Chlorophyll
  • Excitons
  • Energy transfer
  • FMO complex
  • Photosystem II Protein Complex
  • Photosynthesis
  • Chlorophyll
Beschreibung:
  • The excitation energy transfer dynamics in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex is quantified in terms of a non-Markovianity measure based on the time evolution of the trace distance of two quantum states. We use a system description derived from experiments and different environmental fluctuation spectral functions, which are obtained either from experimental data or from molecular dynamics simulations. These exhibit, in all cases, a nontrivial structure with several peaks attributed to vibrational modes of the pigment-protein complex. Such a structured environmental spectrum can, in principle, give rise to strong non-Markovian effects. We present numerically exact real-time path-integral calculations for the transfer dynamics and find, in all cases, a monotonic decrease of the trace distance with increasing time which renders a Markovian description valid.
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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