Multidimensional electronic spectroscopy of photochemical reactions

P Nuernberger, S Ruetzel… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Coherent multidimensional electronic spectroscopy can be employed to unravel various
channels in molecular chemical reactions. This approach is thus not limited to analysis of …

Quantum coherences reveal excited-state dynamics in biophysical systems

L Wang, MA Allodi, GS Engel - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Ultrafast, multi-dimensional spectroscopic measurements of photosynthetic light-harvesting
complexes have revealed quantum coherences with timescales comparable to those of …

Photosynthesis tunes quantum-mechanical mixing of electronic and vibrational states to steer exciton energy transfer

JS Higgins, LT Lloyd, SH Sohail… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Photosynthetic species evolved to protect their light-harvesting apparatus from photoxidative
damage driven by intracellular redox conditions or environmental conditions. The Fenna …

Quantum coherence spectroscopy reveals complex dynamics in bacterial light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2)

E Harel, GS Engel - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Light-harvesting antenna complexes transfer energy from sunlight to photosynthetic reaction
centers where charge separation drives cellular metabolism. The process through which …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative investigations of quantum coherence for a light-harvesting protein at conditions simulating photosynthesis

DB Turner, R Dinshaw, KK Lee, MS Belsley… - Physical Chemistry …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent measurements using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2D ES) have shown
that the initial dynamic response of photosynthetic proteins can involve quantum coherence …

Recent advances in multidimensional ultrafast spectroscopy

TAA Oliver - Royal Society open science, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Multidimensional ultrafast spectroscopies are one of the premier tools to investigate
condensed phase dynamics of biological, chemical and functional nanomaterial systems. As …

Crossing disciplines‐A view on two‐dimensional optical spectroscopy

AM Brańczyk, DB Turner, GD Scholes - Annalen der Physik, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent interest in the role of quantum mechanics in the primary events of photosynthetic
energy transfer has led to a convergence of nonlinear optical spectroscopy, condensed …

Dynamic localization of electronic excitation in photosynthetic complexes revealed with chiral two-dimensional spectroscopy

AF Fidler, VP Singh, PD Long, PD Dahlberg… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Time-resolved ultrafast optical probes of chiral dynamics provide a new window allowing us
to explore how interactions with such structured environments drive electronic dynamics …

Phase-cycling schemes for pump–probe beam geometry two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

Z Zhang, KL Wells, EWJ Hyland, HS Tan - Chemical Physics Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
Experimental demonstrations and detailed theoretical explanations are provided for a
thorough understanding of the various phase-cycling schemes in an optical pulse shaper …

Formally exact simulations of mesoscale exciton diffusion in a light-harvesting 2 antenna nanoarray

L Varvelo, JK Lynd, B Citty, O Kühn… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The photosynthetic apparatus of plants and bacteria combine atomically precise pigment–
protein complexes with dynamic membrane architectures to control energy transfer on the …