Kreisbeck, Christoph and Kramer, Tobias and Rodriguez, Mirta and Hein, Birgit (2011) High-Performance Solution of Hierarchical Equations of Motion for Studying Energy Transfer in Light-Harvesting Complexes. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION, 7 (7). pp. 2166-2174. ISSN 1549-9618,
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Excitonic models of light-harvesting complexes, where the vibrational degrees of freedom are treated as a bath, are commonly used to describe the motion of the electronic excitation through a molecule. Recent experiments point toward the possibility of memory effects in this process and require one to consider time nonlocal propagation techniques. The hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) were proposed by Ishizaki and Fleming to describe the site-dependent reorganization dynamics of protein environments (J. Chem. Phys. 2009, 130, 234111), which plays a significant role in photosynthetic electronic energy transfer. HEOM are often used as a reference for other approximate methods but have been implemented only for small systems due to their adverse computational scaling with the system size. Here, we show that HEOM are also solvable for larger systems, since the underlying algorithm is ideally suited for the usage of graphics processing units (CPU). The tremendous reduction in computational time due to the GPU allows us to perform a systematic study of the energy-transfer efficiency in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) light-harvesting complex at physiological temperature under full consideration of memory effects. We find that approximative methods differ qualitatively and quantitatively from the HEOM results and discuss the importance of finite temperature to achieving high energy-transfer efficiencies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | QUANTUM COHERENCE; FMO PROTEIN; PHYSIOLOGICAL TEMPERATURE; SYSTEMS; BACTERIA; DENSITY; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| Divisions: | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jun 2020 10:53 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jun 2020 10:53 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/20587 |
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