Donatas Zigmantas
Research Interests
- Light harvesting and charge separation in photosynthetic complexes
- Dynamics in multichromophore systems
- Photoinduced ultrafast processes in nano structures
- Development of polarization-controlled two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy
Selected Publications
2020
- A review on quantum effects in photosynthesis, Quantum biology revisited, Science Advances, 6(14), (2020)
- E. Bukartė, A. Haufe, D. Paleček, C. Büchel, D. Zigmantasa, Revealing vibronic coupling in chlorophyll c1 by polarization-controlled 2D electronic spectroscopy, Chem. Phys. 530, (2020)
2019
- L. Wittenbecher, D. Zigmantas, Correction of Fabry-Pérot interference effects in phase and amplitude pulse shapers based on liquid crystal spatial light modulators, Optics Express, 27(16), (2019)
- D. Paleček, P. Edlund, E. Gustavsson, S. Westenhoff, D. Zigmantas, Potential pitfalls of the early-time dynamics in two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy, J. Chem. Phys., 151, (2019)
2018
- E. Thyrhaug, R. Tempelaar, M.J.P. Alcocer, K. Žídek, D. Bína, J. Knoester, T.L.C. Jansen and D. Zigmantas, Identification and Characterization of Diverse Coherences in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex, Nature Chem. (2018).
- M. Schröter, M.J.P. Alcocer, R.J. Cogdell, O. Kühn and D. Zigmantas, Origin of the Two Bands in the B800 Ring and Their Involvement in the Energy Transfer Network of Allochromatium vinosum, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9, (2018)
2017
- D. Paleček, P. Edlund, S. Westenhoff, D. Zigmantas, Quantum Coherence as a Witness of Vibronically Hot Energy Transfer in Bacterial Reaction Centre, Sci. Adv., 3(9), (2017).
- E. Thyrhaug, S.A. Bogh, M.R. Carro-Temboury, C.S. Madsen, T. Vosch, D. Zigmantas, Ultrafast coherence transfer in DNA-templated silver nanoclusters, Nat. Commun., 15577, (2017).
- V. Butkus, J. Alster, E. Bašinskaitė, R. Augulis, P. Neuhaus, L. Valkunas, H.L. Anderson, D. Abramavicius, D. Zigmantas, Discrimination of Diverse Coherences Allows Identification of Electronic Transitions of a Molecular Nanoring, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8(10), 2344–2349 (2017).
- L. Dall’Osto, S. Cazzaniga, M. Bressan, D. Paleček, K. Židek, K.K. Niyogi, G.R. Fleming, D. Zigmantas and R. Bassi, Two mechanisms for dissipation of excess light in monomeric and trimeric light-harvesting complexes, Nat. Plants, 3, 17033 (2017).
- K. Redeckas, V. Voiciuk, D. Zigmantas, R.G. Hiller and M. Vengris, Unveiling the excited state energy transfer pathways in peridinin-chlorophyll a-protein by ultrafast multi-pulse transient absorption spectroscopy, Biochim. Biophys. Acta Bioenerg., 1858(4), 297–307 (2017).