Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 44, Issue 1, 117002(2015)

Redundancy of Fenna-Matthews-Olson for Energy Harvesting

LENG Xuan and LIANG Xian-ting
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    The energy transfer between a subunit of Fenna-Matthews-Olson antenna complex of green sulfur bacteria and its reaction center (sink) was investigated. Through fixing the site energies of bacteriochlorophyll molecules and the coupling strength between the Bacteriochlorophylls(BChls), a Hamiltonian of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson-sink and its reduced models were constructed. Based on the Hamiltonian, the evolutions of the populations of different BChls and the sink states was investigated by a hierarchical equation of motion approach. In order to observe the coherence between different states in the processes of energy transfer, the two-dimensional third-order photon echo spectra of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson and its reduced models in different waiting times were calculated. The results imply that for energy harvesting there are some redundant chromophores in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex.

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    LENG Xuan, LIANG Xian-ting. Redundancy of Fenna-Matthews-Olson for Energy Harvesting[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2015, 44(1): 117002

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    Received: Jun. 11, 2014

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    Published Online: Jan. 26, 2015

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    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20154401.0117002

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