From Atomistic Modeling to Excitation Transfer and Two-Dimensional Spectra of the FMO Light-Harvesting Complex
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- 作者：Carsten Olbrich ; Thomas L. C. Jansen ; Jo虉rg Liebers ; Mortaza Aghtar ; Johan Stru虉mpfer ; Klaus Schulten ; Jasper Knoester ; Ulrich Kleinekatho虉fer
- 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- 出版年：2011
- 出版时间：July 7, 2011
- 年：2011
- 卷：115
- 期：26
- 页码：8609-8621
- 全文大小：1341K
- 年卷期：v.115,no.26(July 7, 2011)
- ISSN：1520-5207
文摘
The experimental observation of long-lived quantum coherences in the Fenna鈥揗atthews鈥揙lson (FMO) light-harvesting complex at low temperatures has challenged general intuition in the field of complex molecular systems and provoked considerable theoretical effort in search of explanations. Here we report on room-temperature calculations of the excited-state dynamics in FMO using a combination of molecular dynamics simulations and electronic structure calculations. Thus we obtain trajectories for the Hamiltonian of this system which contains time-dependent vertical excitation energies of the individual bacteriochlorophyll molecules and their mutual electronic couplings. The distribution of energies and couplings is analyzed together with possible spatial correlations. It is found that in contrast to frequent assumptions the site energy distribution is non-Gaussian. In a subsequent step, averaged wave packet dynamics is used to determine the exciton dynamics in the system. Finally, with the time-dependent Hamiltonian, linear and two-dimensional spectra are determined. The thus-obtained linear absorption line shape agrees well with experimental observation and is largely determined by the non-Gaussian site energy distribution. The two-dimensional spectra are in line with what one would expect by extrapolation of the experimental observations at lower temperatures and indicate almost total loss of long-lived coherences.