Dimerization-assisted energy transport in light-harvesting complexes

Details Dimerization-assisted energy transport in light-harvesting complexes Dimerization-assisted energy transport in light-harvesting complexes

2010-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/1002.0496v2

J. Chem. Phys. 132, 234501 (2010)

Physics

Biological Physics

11 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3435213

We study the role of the dimer structure of light-harvesting complex II (LH2) in excitation transfer from the LH2 (without a reaction center (RC)) to the LH1 (surrounding the RC), or from the LH2 to another LH2. The excited and un-excited states of a bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) are modeled by a quasi-spin. In the framework of quantum open system theory, we represent the excitation transfer as the total leakage of the LH2 system and then calculate the transfer efficiency and average transfer time. For different initial states with various quantum superposition properties, we study how the dimerization of the B850 BChl ring can enhance the transfer efficiency and shorten the average transfer time.

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