@inproceedings{805548b203a14c7298894155ca1b4b7c,
title = "How the molecular environment controls excitation energy transfer and light harvesting: A quantum mechanical model",
abstract = "We present a quantum-mechanical study of excitation energy transfer (EET) in chromophores - chlorophylls, carotenoids and bilins - taken from structural models of photosynthetic proteins. The effects of the protein environment is analyzed in terms of variations of each single chromophore's properties and the screening of the chromophore-chromophore interaction. In particular, a distant and shape dependent screening effect is found in contrast to what generally assumed in previous models for EET.",
keywords = "Excitation energy transfer, Photosynthesis, Quantum mechanical model",
author = "Benedetta Mennucci and Carles Curutchet and Roberto Cammi and Scholes, {Gregory D.}",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1063/1.2836081",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780735404786",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
number = "2",
pages = "346--349",
booktitle = "Computation in Modern Science and Engineering - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Methods in Science and Engineering 2007 (ICCMSE 2007)",
edition = "2",
note = "International Conference on Computational Methods in Science and Engineering 2007, ICCMSE 2007 ; Conference date: 25-09-2007 Through 30-09-2007",
}