The quantum yield and lifetimes of fluorescence and triplet state of the B820 subunit of core antenna of photosynthetic purple bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum are reported at temperature range from 4.2 to 300K. The fluorescence quantum yield of B820 is strongly dependent on temperature. From 4.2 to about 200 K the yield remains nearly constant. A nonradiative decay process becomes activated aro...

Single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer has been extensively used to measure distance changes and kinetics in various biomolecular systems. However, due to complications involving multiple de-excitation pathways of the dyes, the absolute inter-dye distance information has seldom been recovered. To circumvent this we directly probe the relative variations in the quantum yield of i...

Dual beam thermal lens technique is successfully employed for the determination of absolute fluorescence quantum yield of rhodamine 6G laser dye in different solvents. A 532 nm radiation from a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser was used for the excitation purpose. The fluorescence quantum yield values are found to be strongly influenced by environmental effects. It has been observed that fluorescence yie...

To evaluate genetic variation of wheat (Triticum aestivum) affected by heat and drought stress on eight Australian wheat genotypes that are parents of Doubled Haploid (HD) mapping populations at the vegetative stage, the water stress experiment was conducted at 65% field capacity in growth room. Heat stress experiment was conducted in the research field under irrigation over summer. Result show...

Lanthanide luminescence has many important applications in anion sensing, protein recognition, nanosized phosphorescent devices, optoelectronic devices, immunoassays, etc. Luminescent europium complexes, in particular, act as light conversion molecular devices by absorbing ultraviolet (UV) light and by emitting light in the red visible spectral region. The quantum yield of luminescence is defin...

A dual-beam transient thermal-lens technique was employed for the determination of absolute fluorescence quantum-yield measurements of Rhodamine B laser dye in different solvents. We investigated the effect of excitation on the absolute fluorescence quantum yield of Rhodamine B. 514 nm radiation from an argon ion laser was used as a cw excitation source and 532 nm pulses from a Q-switched Nd:YA...

We identify “proper quantum computation” with computational processes that cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer. For optical quantum computation, we establish “no-go” theorems for classes of quantum optical experiments that cannot yield proper quantum computation, and we identify requirements for optical proper quantum computation that correspond to violations of assumptions ...

The quantum yields of C(3) and C(4) plants from a number of genera and families as well as from ecologically diverse habitats were measured in normal air of 21% O(2) and in 2% O(2). At 30 C, the quantum yields of C(3) plants averaged 0.0524 +/- 0.0014 mol CO(2)/absorbed einstein and 0.0733 +/- 0.0008 mol CO(2)/absorbed einstein under 21 and 2% O(2). At 30 C, the quantum yields of C(4) plants av...

Recently, the quantum nature in the energy transport in solar cells and light-harvesting complexes has attracted much attention as being triggered by the experimental observations. We model the light-harvesting complex (i.e., PEB50 dimer) as a quantum heat engine (QHE) and study the effect of the undamped intramolecule vibrational modes on the coherent energy-transfer process and quantum transp...