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Is There Elliptic Distortion in the Light Harvesting Complex 2 of Purple Bacteria?
Seogjoo J. Jang, Robert J. Silly, Ralf Kunz +2
Single molecule spectroscopy (SMS) revealed unusually large gap between two major exciton peaks of the B850 unit of light harvesting complex 2 (LH2), which could be explained assum…
A Novel Construction of Complex-valued Gaussian Processes with Arbitrary Spectral Densities and its Application to Excitation Energy Transfer
Xin Chen, Jianshu Cao, Robert Silbey
The recent experimental discoveries about excitation energy transfer (EET) in light harvesting antenna (LHA) attract a lot of interest. As an open non-equilibrium quantum system, t…
Generic Mechanism of Optimal Energy Transfer Efficiency: A Scaling Theory of the Mean First Passage Time in Exciton Systems
Jianlan Wu, Jianshu Cao, Robert J. Silbey
An asymptotic scaling theory is presented using the conceptual basis of trapping-free subspace (i.e., orthogonal subspace) to establish the generic mechanism of optimal efficiency…
Correlated interaction fluctuations in photosynthetic complexes
Sebastiaan M. Vlaming, Robert J. Silbey
The functioning and efficiency of natural photosynthetic complexes is strongly influenced by their embedding in a noisy protein environment, which can even serve to enhance the tra…
Efficient Energy Transfer in Light-Harvesting Systems, II: Quantum-Classical Comparison, Flux Network, and Robustness Analysis
Jianlan Wu, Fan Liu, Jian Ma +2
Following the calculation of optimal energy transfer in thermal environment in our first paper (Wu et al., New J. Phys., 2010, 12, 105012), full quantum dynamics and leading-order…
Phase transition in the Jarzynski estimator of free energy differences
Alberto Suárez, Robert Silbey, Irwin Oppenheim
The transition between a regime in which thermodynamic relations apply only to ensembles of small systems coupled to a large environment and a regime in which they can be used to c…