On the Mechanism of the Primary Charge Separation in Bacterial Photosynthesis

Details On the Mechanism of the Primary Charge Separation in Bacterial Photosynthesis On the Mechanism of the Primary Charge Separation in Bacterial Photosynthesis

Publishing date

1994-10-16

URL

arxiv.org/abs/chem-ph/9410001v1

Science

Physics

Field

Chemical Physics

Additional info

Submitted to: Chem. Phys. Lett. (October 4, 1994)

Type

Scientific paper

Digital Object Identifier

10.1016/0009-2614(95)00368-1

Abstract

We present a detailed analysis of the mechanism of the primary charge separation process in bacterial photosynthesis using real-time path integrals. Direct computer simulations as well as an approximate analytical theory have been employed to map out the dynamics of the charge separation process in many regions of the parameter space relevant to bacterial photosynthesis. Two distinct parameter regions, one characteristic of sequential transfer and the other characteristic of superexchange, have been found to yield charge separation dynamics in agreement with experiments. Nonadiabatic theory provides accurate rate estimates for low-lying and very high-lying bacteriochlorophyll state energies, but it breaks down in between these two regimes.

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