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Vibrational dynamics in the light-harvesting complexes of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides

✍ Scribed by M. Chachisvilis; T. Pullerits; M.R. Jones; C.N. Hunter; V. Sundström

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
952 KB
Volume
224
Category
Article
ISSN
0009-2614

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✦ Synopsis

Using = 40 fs pulses we have observed coherent nuclear motions in intact membrane bound photosynthetic light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes. Computer simulations based on the harmonic Franck-Condon approximation and the Langevin equation describe qualitatively well the temperature and pulse wavelength dependence of the oscillations, indicating the possibility to observe higher harmonics of the fundamental frequency of the mode when exciting and probing in the blue side of the spectrum.

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