Breakdown of perturbative weak coupling approaches for the biomolecular energy transfer

Details Breakdown of perturbative weak coupling approaches for the biomolecular energy transfer Breakdown of perturbative weak coupling approaches for the biomolecular energy transfer

2009-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/0911.5590v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages, 4 figures

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We show that the biomolecular exciton dynamics under the influence of slow polarization fluctuations in the solvent cannot be described by approaches which are perturbative in the system-bath coupling. For this, we compare results for the decoherence rate of the exciton dynamics of a resumed perturbation theory with numerically exact real-time path-integral results. We find up to one order in magnitude difference in the decoherence rate for realistically slow solvent environments even in the weak coupling regime, while both results coincide for fast environmental noise. This shows explicitely the nonperturbative influence of the bioenvironmental fluctuations and might render current perturbative approaches to biomolecular exciton transport questionable.

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