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Pajusalu, Mihkel ; Kunz, Ralf ; Rätsep, Margus ; Timpmann, Kõu ; Köhler, Jürgen ; Freiberg, Arvi:
Unified analysis of ensemble and single-complex optical spectral data from light-harvesting complex-2 chromoproteins for gaining deeper insight into bacterial photosynthesis.
In: Physical Review E.
Vol. 92
(2015)
Issue 5
.
- 052709.
ISSN 1550-2376
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.052709
Abstract in another language
Bacterial light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes are very efficient at converting photons into excitons and transferring them to reaction centers, where the energy is stored in a chemical form. Optical properties of the complexes are known to change significantly in time and also vary from one complex to another; therefore, a detailed understanding of the variations on the level of single complexes and how they accumulate into effects that can be seen on the macroscopic scale is required. While experimental and theoretical methods exist to study the spectral properties of light-harvesting complexes on both individual complex and bulk ensemble levels, they have been developed largely independently of each other. To fill this gap,, we simultaneously analyze experimental low-temperature single-complex and bulk ensemble optical spectra of the light-harvesting complelx- 2 (LH2) chromoproteins from the photosynthetic bacterium in order to find a unique theoretical model consistent with both experimental situations. The model, which satisfies most of the observations, combines strong exciton-phonon coupling with significant disorder, characteristic of the proteins. We establish a detailed disorder model that, in addition to containing a C2-symmetrical modulation of the site energies, distinguishes between static intercomplex and slow conformational intracomplex disorders. The model evaluations also verify that, despite best efforts, the single-LH2-complex measurements performed so fa may be biased toward complexes with higher Huang-Rhys- factors.
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| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics > Chair Experimental Physics IX - Spectroscopy of Soft Matter > Chair Experimental Physics IX - Spectroscopy of Soft Matter - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen Köhler Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics > Chair Experimental Physics IX - Spectroscopy of Soft Matter |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2018 11:41 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Aug 2023 06:21 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/43378 |