Probing biological light-harvesting phenomena by optical cavities

Details Probing biological light-harvesting phenomena by optical cavities Probing biological light-harvesting phenomena by optical cavities

2011-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/1110.1386v1

Phys. Rev. B 85, 125424 (2012)

Physics

Biological Physics

10 pages, 16 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.85.125424

We propose a driven optical cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) set up aimed at directly probing energy transport dynamics in photosynthetic biomolecules. We show that detailed information concerning energy transfer paths and delocalization of exciton states can be inferred (and exciton energies estimated) from the statistical properties of the emitted photons. This approach provides us with a novel spectroscopic tool for the interrogation of biological systems in terms of quantum optical phenomena which have been usually studied for atomic or solid-state systems, e.g. trapped atoms and semiconductor quantum dots.

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