Optical cavity-mediated exciton dynamics in photosynthetic light harvesting 2 complexes

oleh: Fan Wu, Daniel Finkelstein-Shapiro, Mao Wang, Ilmari Rosenkampff, Arkady Yartsev, Torbjörn Pascher, Tu C. Nguyen- Phan, Richard Cogdell, Karl Börjesson, Tönu Pullerits

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01

Deskripsi

Light-matter interaction can induce changes to the properties of the system by creating hybrid collective states of light and molecular excitations, the so called polaritons. Here the authors use femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy to explore exciton-polariton dynamics in a photosynthetic protein, light harvesting 2 complexes, and find evidence for rapid energy transfer to dark polariton states.