Original scientific paper
A resonance treatment and its application to electron transfer reactions in a photosynthetic reaction center
Tiberius Cheche
; University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Department of Polymer Physics, P.O.Box 11-Magurele R-76900, Bucharest, Romania
Lucian Georgescu
; University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Department of Polymer Physics, P.O.Box 11-Magurele R-76900, Bucharest, Romania
Emil Barna
; University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Department of Polymer Physics, P.O.Box 11-Magurele R-76900, Bucharest, Romania
Ion Dina
; Sfântul Ioan-Hospital, os. Vitan-Bârzeti 13, Bucharest Romania
Abstract
A detailed theoretical description of the "resonance treatment" based on Bloch equations is presented for a dissipative two-state system, in the limit of weak coupling between a microscopic subsystem and its environment, using the framework of the "spin-boson" model. For an Ohmic spectral density function, the dynamics of the transition probability for an overdamped regime is applied in the case of the primary electron transfer reaction in a bacterial photosynthetic reaction center.
Keywords
dissipative two-state system; microscopic subsystem and its environment; weak coupling; “spin-boson” model; overdamped regime; primary electron transfer reaction; bacterial photosynthetic reaction
Hrčak ID:
300886
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Publication date:
1.10.1998.
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