Coulombic couplings between pigments in the major light-harvesting complex LHC II calculated by the transition density cube method
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We present ab initio transition density cube (TDC) calculations of the coulombic couplings between chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments in the major light-harvesting complex of photosystem II (LHC II) based on the 2.72 Å structure [Liu et al., Nature 428(2004) 287– 292]. A comparison with couplings calculated by the ideal dipole approximation (IDA) demonstrate that for inter-pigment distances of less than 25 Å the IDA-values can deviate by up to one order of magnitude from the exact values calculated by the TDC-method. The largest deviations are observed for interactions involving Qx states because of a significant multipole character of the corresponding Qx transitions. 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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