comprehensive theory of excitation energy transfer verifiable by ultrafast coherent spectroscopies

在高等植物和藻类的光合作用中，光能被蛋白质中嵌入的色素有效地收集和转移。光能诱导电子和质子转移，促进水的裂解和析氧反应。为了阐明这种反应的机理，我们不仅需要使用实验方法，还需要使用理论方法。在这项研究中，我们构建了一个能很好地描述实验结果的理论，并解释了光合蛋白中能量、电子和质子转移的部分机制。

In photosynthesis of higher plants and algae, light energy is efficiently collected and transferred by pigments embedded in the protein. The light energy induces the electron and the proton transfers which promote the water-splitting and the oxygen-evolving reaction. To clarify the mechanism of such a reaction, we need to use not only experimental but also theoretical approaches. In this study, we constructed a theory that well describes experimental results, and explained a part of mechanisms of the energy, the electron and the proton transfers in the photosynthetic protein.