ArticleScience advances2017
Quantum coherence as a witness of vibronically hot energy transfer in bacterial reaction center.
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- Atomic fluctuations in electronic materials revealed by dephasing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
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- Quantum biology revisited.Science advances · 2020Review
- Optimal efficiency of the Q-cycle mechanism around physiological temperatures from an open quantum systems approach.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Both electronic and vibrational coherences are involved in primary electron transfer in bacterial reaction center.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Spatially-resolved fluorescence-detected two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy probes varying excitonic structure in photosynthetic bacteria.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Coherent phenomena in photosynthetic light harvesting: part two-observations in biological systems.Biophysical reviews · 2018Review
- Coherence in carotenoid-to-chlorophyll energy transfer.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Identification and characterization of diverse coherences in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex.Nature chemistry · 2018Article
- Vibronic Coherence in the Charge Separation Process of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides Reaction Center.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2018Article
- Ultrafast coherence transfer in DNA-templated silver nanoclusters.Nature communications · 2017Article
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Abstract
Photosynthetic proteins have evolved over billions of years so as to undergo optimal energy transfer to the sites of charge separation. On the basis of spectroscopically detected quantum coherences, it has been suggested that this energy transfer is partially wavelike. This conclusion depends critically on the assignment of the coherences to the evolution of excitonic superpositions. We demonstrate that, for a bacterial reaction center protein, long-lived coherent spectroscopic oscillations, which bear canonical signatures of excitonic superpositions, are essentially vibrational excited-state coherences shifted to the ground state of the chromophores. We show that the appearance of these coherences arises from a release of electronic energy during energy transfer. Our results establish how energy migrates on vibrationally hot chromophores in the reaction center, and they call for a reexamination of claims of quantum energy transfer in photosynthesis.
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