Besides absorbing light, the core antenna complex CP43 of photosystem II is of great importance in transferring excitation energy from the antenna complexes to the reaction center. Excitation energies, spectral densities, and linear absorption spectra of the complex have been evaluated by a multiscale approach. In this scheme, quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics molecular dynamics simulations are performed employing the parameterized density functional tight binding (DFTB) while the time-dependent long-range-corrected DFTB scheme is applied for the excited state calculations. The obtained average spectral density of the CP43 complex shows a very good agreement with experimental results. Moreover, the excitonic Hamiltonian of the system along with the computed site-dependent spectral densities was used to determine the linear absorption. While a Redfield-like approximation has severe shortcomings in dealing with the CP43 complex due to quasi-degenerate states, the non-Markovian full second-order cumulant expansion formalism is able to overcome the drawbacks. Linear absorption spectra were obtained, which show a good agreement with the experimental counterparts at different temperatures. This study once more emphasizes that by combining diverse techniques from the areas of molecular dynamics simulations, quantum chemistry, and open quantum systems, it is possible to obtain first-principle results for photosynthetic complexes, which are in accord with experimental findings.
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7 June 2022
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June 01 2022
Spectral densities and absorption spectra of the core antenna complex CP43 from photosystem II
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Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Energy Conversion
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Pooja Sarngadharan
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Pooja Sarngadharan
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen
, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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Sayan Maity
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Sayan Maity
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen
, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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Ulrich Kleinekathöfer
Ulrich Kleinekathöfer
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Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen
, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: u.kleinekathoefer@jacobs-university.de
Note: This paper is part of the JCP Special Topic on Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Energy Conversion.
J. Chem. Phys. 156, 215101 (2022)
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Received:
March 10 2022
Accepted:
May 11 2022
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Pooja Sarngadharan, Sayan Maity, Ulrich Kleinekathöfer; Spectral densities and absorption spectra of the core antenna complex CP43 from photosystem II. J. Chem. Phys. 7 June 2022; 156 (21): 215101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0091005
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