Rerouting Excitation Transfer in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex
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Guang-Yin Chen, 2 Neill Lambert, Che-Ming Li, Yueh-Nan Chen, † and Franco Nori 4 Department of Physics and National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan CEMS, RIKEN, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan Department of Engineering Science and Supercomputing Research Center, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan City 701, Taiwan Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040, USA (Dated: May 22, 2014)
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