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Quantification of non-Markovian effects in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex
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Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 2013-12, Vol.88 (6), p.062719-062719, Article 062719
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United States
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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PROLA
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The excitation energy transfer dynamics in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex is quantified in terms of a non-Markovianity measure based on the time evolution of the trace distance of two quantum states. We use a system description derived from experiments and different environmental fluctuation spectral functions, which are obtained either from experimental data or from molecular dynamics simulations. These exhibit, in all cases, a nontrivial structure with several peaks attributed to vibrational modes of the pigment-protein complex. Such a structured environmental spectrum can, in principle, give rise to strong non-Markovian effects. We present numerically exact real-time path-integral calculations for the transfer dynamics and find, in all cases, a monotonic decrease of the trace distance with increasing time which renders a Markovian description valid.