DISSIPATIVE THREE-STATE SYSTEM AND THE PRIMARY ELECTRON TRANSFER IN THE BACTERIAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER
DISSIPATIVE THREE-STATE SYSTEM AND THE PRIMARY ELECTRON TRANSFER IN THE BACTERIAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER
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耗散三态系统与细菌光合反应中心的初级电子传递
DOI:
10.1021/j100090a027
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发表时间:
1994
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通讯作者:
C. Mak
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作者:
R. Egger;C. Mak
The mechanism of the ultrafast primary charge separation process in bacterial photosynthesis has been examined with a general dissipative three-state tight-binding model. Using real-time path integrals, the transient populations of the three electronic states (BChl[sub 2]*BChlBPh, BChl[sub 2][sup +]BChl[sup [minus]]BPh, BChl[sub 2][sup +]BChlBPh[sup [minus]]) involved in the reaction have been computed by numerically exact quantum Monte Carlo techniques. The simulations show that the dissipative three-state system can reproduce many characteristic features of the initial charge separation in the reaction center for at least two parameter regions. In both regions, the accessory bacteriochlorophyll population remains small throughout the electron transfer and the transfer rate exhibits the experimentally observed inverse temperature dependence. The first region is associated with a low-lying BChl[sub 2][sup +]BChl[sup [minus]] state and weak electronic couplings. In this region, the transient populations are predominantly monoexponential, and the dynamics is consistent with a stepwise (incoherent) mechanism with nonadiabatic electron-transfer rates. The other region is associated with a BChl[sub 2][sup +]BChl[sup [minus]] state lying above the photoexcited special pair (BChl[sub 2]*). 52 refs., 15 figs., 9 tabs.