Robustness and Optimality of Light Harvesting in Cyanobacterial Photosystem I
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Melih K. Sener,† Deyu Lu,†,‡ Thorsten Ritz,§ Sanghyun Park,†,‡ Petra Fromme,#,⊥ and Klaus Schulten*,†,‡ Beckman Institute, UniVersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, Department of Physics, UniVersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniVersity, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, Max-Volmer Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, Institut für Chemie, Fakultät 2, Technische UniVersität Berlin, D-10623 Berlin, Germany, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State UniVersity, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604
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