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Tönu Pullerits. Portrait.

Tönu Pullerits

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Tönu Pullerits. Portrait.

Fluorescence depolarization dynamics in the B850 complex of purple bacteria

Author

  • O Kuhn
  • Villy Sundström
  • Tönu Pullerits

Summary, in English

The fluorescence anisotropic decay is modeled for the B850 bacteriochlorophyll a complex of the purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila. Structural information is combined with experimental data to derive a Hamilton operator which models the S-0-S-1 excitation energy transfer between the pigments as well as the energy dissipation into the protein environment. The time-resolved fluorescence signal is determined from the solutions of the equations of motion for the one-exciton density matrix. Nonsecular terms in the Redfield relaxation tensor are shown to have a dramatic influence on the calculated time scales for depolarization.

Department/s

  • Chemical Physics

Publishing year

2002

Language

English

Pages

15-30

Publication/Series

Chemical Physics

Volume

275

Issue

1-3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0301-0104