Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of the Low-Light Adapted Light Harvesting Complex 4
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Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of Light Harvesting Complex 4 from photosynthetic bacteria reveals excited state dynamics on two timescales and resolves exciton states with little to no oscillator strength. The results suggest a molecular structure in which the pigment dipole organization within the circular complex has more tangential than radial character.
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