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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 16: POSTERS Polyelectrolytes and Biological Systems
CPP 16.5: Poster
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 14:00–16:30, P3
Optical Bloch equations of light harvesting nanostructures — Alexander Carmele1, •Marten Richter1, Thomas Renger2, and Andreas Knorr1 — 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, AG Nichtlineare Optik und Quantenelektronik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany — 2Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 3, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Within a Bloch equation approach [1], we calculate linear and pump-test spectra of Coulomb-coupled nanostructures (like pigments in pigment-protein complexes in LHC-II or the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex). The theory includes Förster-coupling induced excitation transfer between the nanostructures, electron-vibrational coupling between the nanosystems and their environment as well as the interaction with external optical fields and is based on many particle Liouville and cluster-expansion techniques. Hereby, we include self-consistently the structural data for the optical transition energies of pigments in protein environments and the spectral density of exciton-vibrational coupling [3].
| [1] | M. Richter, Th. Renger, G. Renger, A. Knorr, J. Chem. Phys. 127, 075105 (2007) |
| [2] | M. Richter, Th. Renger, A. Knorr, Photosyn. Res. 95, 2-3, 119 - 127 (2008) |
| [3] | J. Adolphs, F. Müh, M. El-Amine Madjet, Th. Renger, Photosyn. Res. 95, 2-3, 197 -209 (2008) |