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Jana S, Durst S, Lippitz M. Fluorescence-Detected Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of a Single Molecule. NANO LETTERS 2024; 24:12576-12581. [PMID: 39331651 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c03559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/29/2024]
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Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy is a powerful method that avoids ensemble averaging, but its temporal resolution is limited by the fluorescence lifetime to nanoseconds at most. At the ensemble level, two-dimensional spectroscopy provides insight into ultrafast femtosecond processes, such as energy transfer and line broadening, even beyond the Fourier limit, by correlating pump and probe spectra. Here, we combine these two techniques and demonstrate coherent 2D spectroscopy of individual dibenzoterrylene (DBT) molecules at room temperature. We excite the molecule in a confocal microscope with a phase-modulated train of femtosecond pulses and detect the emitted fluorescence with single-photon counting detectors. Using a phase-sensitive detection scheme, we were able to measure the nonlinear 2D spectra of most of the DBT molecules that we studied. Our method is applicable to a wide range of single emitters and opens new avenues for understanding energy transfer in single quantum objects on ultrafast time scales.
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- Sanchayeeta Jana
- Experimental Physics III, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Experimental Physics III, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Experimental Physics III, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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Yoneda Y, Kuramochi H. Room-Temperature Solution Fluorescence Excitation Correlation Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:8533-8539. [PMID: 39135215 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/23/2024]
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Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy is a powerful tool for investigating the physical properties of individual molecules, yet elucidating the fast fluctuation dynamics of freely diffusing single molecules in solution at room temperature, where a variety of chemical and biological processes occur, remains challenging. In this study, we report on fluorescence excitation correlation spectroscopy of room-temperature solutions, which enables the study of spontaneous fluctuation of the excitation spectrum with microsecond time resolution. By employing Fourier transform spectroscopy with broadband femtosecond pulses and time-correlated single-photon counting, we achieved fluorescence excitation spectroscopy of a room-temperature solution at the single-molecule level. Building upon this single-molecule measurement, we obtained an excitation wavelength-resolved fluorescence autocorrelation function in the microsecond to millisecond range, demonstrating the potential of this method to elucidate fast, spontaneous, time-dependent changes of excitation spectra in statistically equilibrated systems. With further development, this method will allow the study of spectral exchange associated with transitions between sub-ensembles of solution-phase molecules with unprecedented time resolution.
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- Yusuke Yoneda
- Research Center of Integrative Molecular Systems (CIMoS), Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
- Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, 38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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- Research Center of Integrative Molecular Systems (CIMoS), Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
- Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, 38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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Huang C, Bai S, Shi Q. Simulation of the Pump-Probe Spectra and Excitation Energy Relaxation of the B850 Band of the LH2 Complex in Purple Bacteria. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:7467-7475. [PMID: 39059418 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c02059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/28/2024]
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Ultrafast spectroscopic techniques have been vital in studying excitation energy transfer (EET) in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes. In this paper, we simulate the pump-probe spectra of the B850 band of the light harvesting complex 2 (LH2) of purple bacteria, by using the hierarchical equation of motion method and the optical response function approach. The ground state bleach, stimulated emission, and excited state absorption components of the pump-probe spectra are analyzed in detail. The laser pulse-induced population dynamics are also simulated to help understand the main features of the pump-probe spectra and the EET process. It is shown that the excitation energy relaxation is an ultrafast process with multiple time scales. The first 40 fs of the pump-probe spectra is dominated by the relaxation of the k = ±1 states to both the k = 0 and higher energy states. Dynamics on a longer time scale around 200 fs reflects the relaxation of higher energy states to the k = 0 state.
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- Chenghong Huang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun,Beijing 100190, China
- China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun,Beijing 100190, China
- China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancun,Beijing 100190, China
- China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Shi J, Shen Y, Pan F, Sun W, Mangu A, Shi C, McKeown-Green A, Moradifar P, Bawendi MG, Moerner WE, Dionne JA, Liu F, Lindenberg AM. Solution-phase sample-averaged single-particle spectroscopy of quantum emitters with femtosecond resolution. NATURE MATERIALS 2024; 23:1063-1069. [PMID: 38589542 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01855-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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The development of many quantum optical technologies depends on the availability of single quantum emitters with near-perfect coherence. Systematic improvement is limited by a lack of understanding of the microscopic energy flow at the single-emitter level and ultrafast timescales. Here we utilize a combination of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and ultrafast spectroscopy to capture the sample-averaged dynamics of defects with single-particle sensitivity. We employ this approach to study heterogeneous emitters in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride. From milliseconds to nanoseconds, the translational, shelving, rotational and antibunching features are disentangled in time, which quantifies the normalized two-photon emission quantum yield. Leveraging the femtosecond resolution of this technique, we visualize electron-phonon coupling and discover the acceleration of polaronic formation on multi-electron excitation. Corroborated with theory, this translates to the photon fidelity characterization of cascaded emission efficiency and decoherence time. Our work provides a framework for ultrafast spectroscopy in heterogeneous emitters, opening new avenues of extreme-scale characterization for quantum applications.
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- Jiaojian Shi
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
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Zhong K, Nguyen HL, Do TN, Tan HS, Knoester J, Jansen TLC. Coarse-Grained Approach to Simulate Signatures of Excitation Energy Transfer in Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of Large Molecular Systems. J Chem Theory Comput 2024; 20:6111-6124. [PMID: 38996082 PMCID: PMC11270824 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2024] [Revised: 06/25/2024] [Accepted: 06/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024]
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Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) has proven to be a highly effective technique in studying the properties of excited states and the process of excitation energy transfer in complex molecular assemblies, particularly in biological light-harvesting systems. However, the accurate simulation of 2DES for large systems still poses a challenge because of the heavy computational demands it entails. In an effort to overcome this limitation, we devised a coarse-grained 2DES method. This method encompasses the treatment of the entire system by dividing it into distinct weakly coupled segments, which are assumed to communicate predominantly through incoherent exciton transfer. We first demonstrate the efficiency of this method through simulation on a model dimer system, which demonstrates a marked improvement in calculation efficiency, with results that exhibit good concordance with reference spectra calculated with less approximate methods. Additionally, the application of this method to the light-harvesting antenna 2 (LH2) complex of purple bacteria showcases its advantages, accuracy, and limitations. Furthermore, simulating the anisotropy decay in LH2 induced by energy transfer and its comparison with experiments confirm that the method is capable of accurately describing dynamical processes in a biologically relevant system. This method presented lends itself to an extension that accounts for the effect of intrasegment relaxation processes on the 2DES spectra, which for computational efficiency are ignored in the implementation reported here. It is envisioned that the method will be employed in the future to accurately and efficiently calculate 2D spectra of more extensive systems, such as photosynthetic supercomplexes.
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- Kai Zhong
- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Nijenborgh 3, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
- School
of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore
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- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Nijenborgh 3, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
- School
of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore
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- School
of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore
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- School
of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore
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- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Nijenborgh 3, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
- Faculty
of Science, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Nijenborgh 3, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Kizmann M, Yadalam HK, Chernyak VY, Mukamel S. Intraband Exciton Transitions in Photosynthetic Complexes Revealed by Novel Five-Wave-Mixing Spectroscopy. J Chem Theory Comput 2024; 20:280-289. [PMID: 38128473 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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We calculate the χ(4) optical response of an oriented photosystem II reaction center of purple bacteria described by the Frenkel exciton model using nonlinear exciton equations (NEE). This approach treats each chromophore as an anharmonic oscillator and provides an intuitive quasiparticle picture of nonlinear spectroscopic signals of interacting excitons. It provides a computationally powerful description of nonlinear spectroscopic signals that avoids complete diagonalization of the total Hamiltonian. Expressions for the second- and the fourth-order nonlinear signals are derived. The NEE have been successfully employed in the past to describe even-order-wave-mixing. Here, we extend them to aggregates with broken inversion symmetries. Even-order susceptibilities require the introduction of permanent dipoles, which allow to directly probe low-frequency intraband transitions of excitons.
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- Matthias Kizmann
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92614, United States
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92614, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92614, United States
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92614, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, 5101 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202, United States
- Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, 656 W. Kirby, Detroit, Michigan 48202, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92614, United States
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92614, United States
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Fersch D, Malý P, Rühe J, Lisinetskii V, Hensen M, Würthner F, Brixner T. Single-Molecule Ultrafast Fluorescence-Detected Pump-Probe Microscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2023:4923-4932. [PMID: 37207316 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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We introduce fluorescence-detected pump-probe microscopy by combining a wavelength-tunable ultrafast laser with a confocal scanning fluorescence microscope, enabling access to the femtosecond time scale on the micrometer spatial scale. In addition, we obtain spectral information from Fourier transformation over excitation pulse-pair time delays. We demonstrate this new approach on a model system of a terrylene bisimide (TBI) dye embedded in a PMMA matrix and acquire the linear excitation spectrum as well as time-dependent pump-probe spectra simultaneously. We then push the technique toward single TBI molecules and analyze the statistical distribution of their excitation spectra. Furthermore, we demonstrate the ultrafast transient evolution of several individual molecules, highlighting their different behavior in contrast to the ensemble due to their individual local environment. By correlating the linear and nonlinear spectra, we assess the effect of the molecular environment on the excited-state energy.
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- Daniel Fersch
- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, 121 16 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
- Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC), Universität Würzburg, Theodor-Boveri-Weg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
- Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC), Universität Würzburg, Theodor-Boveri-Weg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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Gelin MF, Chen L, Domcke W. Equation-of-Motion Methods for the Calculation of Femtosecond Time-Resolved 4-Wave-Mixing and N-Wave-Mixing Signals. Chem Rev 2022; 122:17339-17396. [PMID: 36278801 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Femtosecond nonlinear spectroscopy is the main tool for the time-resolved detection of photophysical and photochemical processes. Since most systems of chemical interest are rather complex, theoretical support is indispensable for the extraction of the intrinsic system dynamics from the detected spectroscopic responses. There exist two alternative theoretical formalisms for the calculation of spectroscopic signals, the nonlinear response-function (NRF) approach and the spectroscopic equation-of-motion (EOM) approach. In the NRF formalism, the system-field interaction is assumed to be sufficiently weak and is treated in lowest-order perturbation theory for each laser pulse interacting with the sample. The conceptual alternative to the NRF method is the extraction of the spectroscopic signals from the solutions of quantum mechanical, semiclassical, or quasiclassical EOMs which govern the time evolution of the material system interacting with the radiation field of the laser pulses. The NRF formalism and its applications to a broad range of material systems and spectroscopic signals have been comprehensively reviewed in the literature. This article provides a detailed review of the suite of EOM methods, including applications to 4-wave-mixing and N-wave-mixing signals detected with weak or strong fields. Under certain circumstances, the spectroscopic EOM methods may be more efficient than the NRF method for the computation of various nonlinear spectroscopic signals.
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- Maxim F Gelin
- School of Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85747 Garching,Germany
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Jayachandran A, Mueller S, Brixner T. Fluorescence-Detected Two-Quantum Photon Echoes via Cogwheel Phase Cycling. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:11710-11719. [PMID: 36512681 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Two-dimensional (2D) electronic spectroscopy can separate homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening. While established methods usually probe a photon-echo signal, i.e., a third-order response, to access the homogeneous line width of singly excited states, the homogeneous line width of doubly excited states remained spectroscopically inaccessible. Here we demonstrate the acquisition of two-quantum (2Q) photon echoes using fluorescence-detected 2D spectroscopy. In these eighth-order signals, 2Q coherences are rephased with themselves, leading to line-narrowed 2Q-2Q 2D spectra. By using cogwheel phase cycling, adapted from nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, we isolate the 2Q-2Q 2D spectra of a squaraine dimer and a squaraine polymer and verify the same selectivity of cogwheel phase cycling compared to traditional "nested" phase cycling. The observed difference, between the two systems, in the homogeneous line width of the biexciton can be rationalized as a signature of the interplay of exciton-exciton annihilation, exciton diffusion, and exciton delocalization.
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- Ajay Jayachandran
- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
- Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC), Universität Würzburg, Theodor-Boveri-Weg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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van Heerden B, Vickers NA, Krüger TPJ, Andersson SB. Real-Time Feedback-Driven Single-Particle Tracking: A Survey and Perspective. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2022; 18:e2107024. [PMID: 35758534 PMCID: PMC9308725 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202107024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2021] [Revised: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Real-time feedback-driven single-particle tracking (RT-FD-SPT) is a class of techniques in the field of single-particle tracking that uses feedback control to keep a particle of interest in a detection volume. These methods provide high spatiotemporal resolution on particle dynamics and allow for concurrent spectroscopic measurements. This review article begins with a survey of existing techniques and of applications where RT-FD-SPT has played an important role. Each of the core components of RT-FD-SPT are systematically discussed in order to develop an understanding of the trade-offs that must be made in algorithm design and to create a clear picture of the important differences, advantages, and drawbacks of existing approaches. These components are feedback tracking and control, ranging from simple proportional-integral-derivative control to advanced nonlinear techniques, estimation to determine particle location from the measured data, including both online and offline algorithms, and techniques for calibrating and characterizing different RT-FD-SPT methods. Then a collection of metrics for RT-FD-SPT is introduced to help guide experimentalists in selecting a method for their particular application and to help reveal where there are gaps in the techniques that represent opportunities for further development. Finally, this review is concluded with a discussion on future perspectives in the field.
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- Bertus van Heerden
- Department of Physics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa
- Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa
- Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
- Division of Systems Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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Moya R, Norris AC, Kondo T, Schlau-Cohen GS. Observation of robust energy transfer in the photosynthetic protein allophycocyanin using single-molecule pump-probe spectroscopy. Nat Chem 2022; 14:153-159. [PMID: 34992285 PMCID: PMC9977402 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00841-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Abstract
Photosynthetic organisms convert sunlight to electricity with near unity quantum efficiency. Absorbed photoenergy transfers through a network of chromophores positioned within protein scaffolds, which fluctuate due to thermal motion. The resultant variation in the individual energy transfer steps has not yet been measured, and so how the efficiency is robust to this variation has not been determined. Here, we describe single-molecule pump-probe spectroscopy with facile spectral tuning and its application to the ultrafast dynamics of single allophycocyanin, a light-harvesting protein from cyanobacteria. We disentangled the energy transfer and energetic relaxation from nuclear motion using the spectral dependence of the dynamics. We observed an asymmetric distribution of timescales for energy transfer and a slower and more heterogeneous distribution of timescales for energetic relaxation, which was due to the impact of the protein environment. Collectively, these results suggest that energy transfer is robust to protein fluctuations, a prerequisite for efficient light harvesting.
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- Raymundo Moya
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology,PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,To whom correspondence should be addressed;
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Facing the fluctuations. Nat Chem 2022; 14:121-123. [DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00881-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Moya R, Kondo T, Norris AC, Schlau-Cohen GS. Spectrally-tunable femtosecond single-molecule pump-probe spectroscopy. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:28246-28256. [PMID: 34614960 PMCID: PMC8687097 DOI: 10.1364/oe.432995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Revised: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Single-molecule spectroscopy has been extensively used to investigate heterogeneity in static and dynamic behaviors on millisecond and second timescales. More recently, single-molecule pump-probe spectroscopy emerged as a method to access heterogeneity on the femtosecond and picosecond timescales. Here, we develop a single-molecule pump-probe apparatus that is easily tunable across the visible region and demonstrate its utility on the widely-used fluorescent dye, Atto647N. A spectrally-independent, bimodal distribution of energetic relaxation time constants is found, where one peak corresponds to electronic dephasing (∼ 100 fs) and the other to intravibrational relaxation (∼ 300 fs). The bimodal nature indicates that relaxation within each individual molecule is dominated by only one of these processes. Both peaks of the distribution are narrow, suggesting little heterogeneity is present for either process. As illustrated here, spectrally-tunable single-molecule pump-probe spectroscopy will enable investigation of the heterogeneity in a wide range of biological and material systems.
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- Raymundo Moya
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Malý P, Brixner T. Fluoreszenz‐detektierte Pump‐Probe‐Spektroskopie. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202102901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Pavel Malý
- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie Universität Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Deutschland
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie Universität Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Deutschland
- Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC) Universität Würzburg Theodor-Boveri-Weg 97074 Würzburg Deutschland
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Malý P, Brixner T. Fluorescence-Detected Pump-Probe Spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:18867-18875. [PMID: 34152074 PMCID: PMC8457154 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202102901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2021] [Revised: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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We introduce a new approach to transient spectroscopy, fluorescence-detected pump-probe (F-PP) spectroscopy, that overcomes several limitations of traditional PP. F-PP suppresses excited-state absorption, provides background-free detection, removes artifacts resulting from pump-pulse scattering, from non-resonant solvent response, or from coherent pulse overlap, and allows unique extraction of excited-state dynamics under certain conditions. Despite incoherent detection, time resolution of F-PP is given by the duration of the laser pulses, independent of the fluorescence lifetime. We describe the working principle of F-PP and provide its theoretical description. Then we illustrate specific features of F-PP by direct comparison with PP, theoretically and experimentally. For this purpose, we investigate, with both techniques, a molecular squaraine heterodimer, core-shell CdSe/ZnS quantum dots, and fluorescent protein mCherry. F-PP is broadly applicable to chemical systems in various environments and in different spectral regimes.
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- Pavel Malý
- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische ChemieUniversität WürzburgAm Hubland97074WürzburgGermany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische ChemieUniversität WürzburgAm Hubland97074WürzburgGermany
- Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC)Universität WürzburgTheodor-Boveri-Weg97074WürzburgGermany
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Le DV, de la Perrelle JM, Do TN, Leng X, Tapping PC, Scholes GD, Kee TW, Tan HS. Characterization of the ultrafast spectral diffusion and vibronic coherence of TIPS-pentacene using 2D electronic spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:014302. [PMID: 34241376 DOI: 10.1063/5.0055528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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TIPS-pentacene is a small-molecule organic semiconductor that is widely used in optoelectronic devices. It has been studied intensely owing to its ability to undergo singlet fission. In this study, we aim to develop further understanding of the coupling between the electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom of TIPS-pentacene (TIPS-Pn). We measured and analyzed the 2D electronic spectra of TIPS-Pn in solutions. Using center line slope (CLS) analysis, we characterized the frequency-fluctuation correlation function of the 0-0 vibronic transition. Strong oscillations in the CLS values were observed for up to 5 ps with a frequency of 264 cm-1, which are attributable to a large vibronic coupling with the TIPS-Pn ring-breathing vibrational mode. In addition, detailed analysis of the CLS values allowed us to retrieve two spectral diffusion lifetimes, which are attributed to the inertial and diffusive dynamics of solvent molecules. Amplitude beating analysis also uncovered couplings with another vibrational mode at 1173 cm-1. The experimental results can be described using the displaced harmonic oscillator model. By comparing the CLS values of the simulated data with the experimental CLS values, we estimated a Huang-Rhys factor of 0.1 for the ring-breathing vibrational mode. The results demonstrated how CLS analysis can be a useful method for characterizing the strength of vibronic coupling.
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- Duc Viet Le
- Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371
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- Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371
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- Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia
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- Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371
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Dhir A, Gogoi H, Datta A. Modulation of FRET efficiency by donor-acceptor ratio in co-condensed fluorophore-silica nanoconjugates. J INDIAN CHEM SOC 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jics.2021.100067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Quantum dissipation driven by electron transfer within a single molecule investigated with atomic force microscopy. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1337. [PMID: 32165626 PMCID: PMC7067884 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15054-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Intramolecular charge transfer processes play an important role in many biological, chemical and physical processes including photosynthesis, redox chemical reactions and electron transfer in molecular electronics. These charge transfer processes are frequently influenced by the dynamics of their molecular or atomic environments, and they are accompanied with energy dissipation into this environment. The detailed understanding of such processes is fundamental for their control and possible exploitation in future technological applications. Most of the experimental studies of the intramolecular charge transfer processes so far have been carried out using time-resolved optical spectroscopies on large molecular ensembles. This hampers detailed understanding of the charge transfer on the single molecular level. Here we build upon the recent progress in scanning probe microscopy, and demonstrate the control of mixed valence state. We report observation of single electron transfer between two ferrocene redox centers within a single molecule and the detection of energy dissipation associated with the single electron transfer. Here, the authors use atomic force microscopy under ultra-high vacuum conditions to study intramolecular single electron transfer within a single molecule. This allows them to investigate energy dissipation process related to the electron transfer as a function of temperature.
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Jakučionis M, Mancal T, Abramavičius D. Modeling irreversible molecular internal conversion using the time-dependent variational approach with sD2 ansatz. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:8952-8962. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01092h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A model of irreversible molecular internal conversion dynamics due to molecular thermal energy dissipation to the bath is presented.
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- Mantas Jakučionis
- Institute of Chemical Physics
- Vilnius University
- LT-10222 Vilnius
- Lithuania
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
- Charles University
- 121 16 Prague
- Czech Republic
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Rajabi S, Mančal T. Energy transfer times in fluorographene-based biomimetic light harvesting antennae. Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2019.110477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Cho KH, Chung S, Rhee YM. Efficiently Transplanting Potential Energy Interpolation Database between Two Systems: Bacteriochlorophyll Case with FMO and LH2 Complexes. J Chem Inf Model 2019; 59:4228-4238. [PMID: 31487163 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Generating a reliable potential energy surface (PES) is an important issue for studying the dynamics of any system with computational simulations. Interpolation mechanics/molecular mechanics (IM/MM) based on a PES interpolation scheme is a useful tool in that regard as it provides an accuracy of a quantum chemistry (QC) level while maintaining its computational cost comparable to conventional MM force fields. Despite this benefit, constructing the database for interpolation itself is still challenging and time-consuming. Here, we present a method with which we can construct the IM database of one system based on a preexisting data set for another related system. We adopt the case of constructing bacteriochlorophyll PESs for the light-harvesting 2 (LH2) complex by utilizing already available IM database for the BChls from the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex. In this method, the IM database from FMO is first transplanted to LH2 by considering BChl displacement vectors that take into account the geometry differences induced by the protein scaffolds. From this transplanted primitive database entries, a relatively small number of effective ones are selected by a survival process based on a genetic algorithm such that the IM energies evaluated at geometries in a conveniently collected prediction set can closely match with the reference QC energies. The selection process is expedited by using two different levels of basis sets for the QC calculations. To demonstrate the utility of the PES thus constructed, we carry out 1 ns of IM/MM dynamics simulations with the finally optimized BChl database for LH2. Indeed, the energy profiles of the snapshots are found to be closely matching with the reference QC calculation data, with only ∼0.07 eV of errors in the ground- and excited-state energies and ∼0.008 eV of errors in the transition energies. We also show that properly selecting data points is actually quite important for generating an IM PES toward performing molecular dynamics simulations.
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- Kwang Hyun Cho
- Department of Chemistry , Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) , Daejeon 34141 , Korea
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- Department of Chemistry , Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) , Pohang 37673 , Korea
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- Department of Chemistry , Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) , Daejeon 34141 , Korea
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Marais A, Adams B, Ringsmuth AK, Ferretti M, Gruber JM, Hendrikx R, Schuld M, Smith SL, Sinayskiy I, Krüger TPJ, Petruccione F, van Grondelle R. The future of quantum biology. J R Soc Interface 2018; 15:20180640. [PMID: 30429265 PMCID: PMC6283985 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2018.0640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Biological systems are dynamical, constantly exchanging energy and matter with the environment in order to maintain the non-equilibrium state synonymous with living. Developments in observational techniques have allowed us to study biological dynamics on increasingly small scales. Such studies have revealed evidence of quantum mechanical effects, which cannot be accounted for by classical physics, in a range of biological processes. Quantum biology is the study of such processes, and here we provide an outline of the current state of the field, as well as insights into future directions.
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- Adriana Marais
- Quantum Research Group, School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa
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- Quantum Research Group, School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa
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- Institute for Lasers, Life and Biophotonics, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, The University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia
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- Institute for Lasers, Life and Biophotonics, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Lasers, Life and Biophotonics, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Lasers, Life and Biophotonics, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Quantum Research Group, School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Quantum Research Group, School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa
- National Institute for Theoretical Physics, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa
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- Quantum Research Group, School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa
- National Institute for Theoretical Physics, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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- Institute for Lasers, Life and Biophotonics, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Wilma K, Shu CC, Scherf U, Hildner R. Visualizing Hidden Ultrafast Processes in Individual Molecules by Single-Pulse Coherent Control. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:15329-15335. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Kevin Wilma
- Soft Matter Spectroscopy, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute of Super-Microstructure and Ultrafast Process in Advanced Materials, School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
- School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2600, Australia
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- Fachbereich C − Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften and Institut für Polymertechnologie, Universität Wuppertal, 42097 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Soft Matter Spectroscopy, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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Chen L, Gelin MF, Domcke W, Zhao Y. Simulation of Femtosecond Phase-Locked Double-Pump Signals of Individual Light-Harvesting Complexes LH2. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:4488-4494. [PMID: 30037231 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Recent phase-locked femtosecond double-pump experiments on individual light-harvesting complexes LH2 of purple bacteria at ambient temperature revealed undamped oscillatory responses on a time scale of at least 400 fs [ Hildner et al. Science 2013 , 340 , 1448 ]. Using an excitonic Hamiltonian for LH2 available in the literature, we simulate these signals numerically by a method that treats excitonic couplings and exciton-phonon couplings in a nonperturbative manner. The simulations provide novel insights into the origin of coherent dynamics in individual LH2 complexes.
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- Lipeng Chen
- Department of Chemistry , Technische Universität München , D-85747 Garching , Germany
- Division of Materials Science , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 639798 , Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry , Technische Universität München , D-85747 Garching , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry , Technische Universität München , D-85747 Garching , Germany
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- Division of Materials Science , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 639798 , Singapore
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Caycedo-Soler F, Lim J, Oviedo-Casado S, van Hulst NF, Huelga SF, Plenio MB. Theory of Excitonic Delocalization for Robust Vibronic Dynamics in LH2. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:3446-3453. [PMID: 29863872 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Nonlinear spectroscopy has revealed long-lasting oscillations in the optical response of a variety of photosynthetic complexes. Different theoretical models that involve the coherent coupling of electronic (excitonic) or electronic-vibrational (vibronic) degrees of freedom have been put forward to explain these observations. The ensuing debate concerning the relevance of either mechanism may have obscured their complementarity. To illustrate this balance, we quantify how the excitonic delocalization in the LH2 unit of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila purple bacterium leads to correlations of excitonic energy fluctuations, relevant coherent vibronic coupling, and importantly, a decrease in the excitonic dephasing rates. Combining these effects, we identify a feasible origin for the long-lasting oscillations observed in fluorescent traces from time-delayed two-pulse single-molecule experiments performed on this photosynthetic complex and use this approach to discuss the role of this complementarity in other photosynthetic systems.
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- Felipe Caycedo-Soler
- Institute of Theoretical Physics and Integrated Quantum Science and Technology IQST , University of Ulm , Albert-Einstein-Allee 11 , D-89069 Ulm , Germany
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics and Integrated Quantum Science and Technology IQST , University of Ulm , Albert-Einstein-Allee 11 , D-89069 Ulm , Germany
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- Departmento de Física Aplicada , Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena , 30202 Cartagena , Spain
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- ICFO - Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques , The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology , 08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona , Spain
- ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats , 08010 Barcelona , Spain
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics and Integrated Quantum Science and Technology IQST , University of Ulm , Albert-Einstein-Allee 11 , D-89069 Ulm , Germany
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics and Integrated Quantum Science and Technology IQST , University of Ulm , Albert-Einstein-Allee 11 , D-89069 Ulm , Germany
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Keren N, Paltiel Y. Photosynthetic Energy Transfer at the Quantum/Classical Border. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 23:497-506. [PMID: 29625851 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2017] [Revised: 02/14/2018] [Accepted: 03/08/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Quantum mechanics diverges from the classical description of our world when very small scales or very fast processes are involved. Unlike classical mechanics, quantum effects cannot be easily related to our everyday experience and are often counterintuitive to us. Nevertheless, the dimensions and time scales of the photosynthetic energy transfer processes puts them close to the quantum/classical border, bringing them into the range of measurable quantum effects. Here we review recent advances in the field and suggest that photosynthetic processes can take advantage of the sensitivity of quantum effects to the environmental 'noise' as means of tuning exciton energy transfer efficiency. If true, this design principle could be a base for 'nontrivial' coherent wave property nano-devices.
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- Nir Keren
- Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
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- Applied Physics Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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Fleming GR. The contributions of 49ers to the measurements and models of ultrafast photosynthetic energy transfer. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2018; 135:3-8. [PMID: 28247235 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-017-0360-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2017] [Accepted: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Progress in measuring and understanding the mechanism of the elementary energy transfer steps in photosynthetic light harvesting from roughly 1949 to the present is sketched with a focus on the group of scientists born in 1949 ± 1. Improvements in structural knowledge, laser spectroscopic methods, and quantum dynamical theories have led to the ability to record and calculate with reasonable accuracy the timescales of elementary energy transfer steps. The significance of delocalized excited states and of near-field Coulombic coupling is noted. The microscopic understanding enables consistent coarse graining and should enable a much-improved understanding of the regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting.
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- Graham R Fleming
- Department of Chemistry and Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioengineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
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Malý P, Gardiner AT, Cogdell RJ, van Grondelle R, Mančal T. Robust light harvesting by a noisy antenna. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:4360-4372. [PMID: 29368769 PMCID: PMC5901068 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp06139k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Accepted: 12/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Photosynthetic light harvesting can be very efficient in solar energy conversion while taking place in a highly disordered and noisy physiological environment. This efficiency is achieved by the ultrafast speed of the primary photosynthetic processes, which is enabled by a delicate interplay of quantum effects, thermodynamics and environmental noise. The primary processes take place in light-harvesting antennas built from pigments bound to a fluctuating protein scaffold. Here, we employ ultrafast single-molecule spectroscopy to follow fluctuations of the femtosecond energy transfer times in individual LH2 antenna complexes of purple bacteria. By combining single molecule results with ensemble spectroscopy through a unified theoretical description of both, we show how the protein fluctuations alter the excitation energy transfer dynamics. We find that from the thirteen orders of magnitude of possible timescales from picoseconds to minutes, the relevant fluctuations occur predominantly on a biological timescale of seconds, i.e. in the domain of slow protein motion. The measured spectra and dynamics can be explained by the protein modulating pigment excitation energies only. Moreover, we find that the small spread of pigment mean energies allows for excitation delocalization between the coupled pigments to survive. These unique features provide fast energy transport even in the presence of disorder. We conclude that this is the mechanism that enables LH2 to operate as a robust light-harvester, in spite of its intrinsically noisy biological environment.
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- Pavel Malý
- Department of Biophysics , Faculty of Sciences , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , De Boeleaan 1081 , 1081HV Amsterdam , The Netherlands .
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics , Charles University , Ke Karlovu 3 , 121 16 Prague , Czech Republic
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- Institute of Molecular , Cellular and Systems Biology , College of Medical , Veterinary and Life Sciences , University of Glasgow , Glasgow G128QQ , UK
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- Institute of Molecular , Cellular and Systems Biology , College of Medical , Veterinary and Life Sciences , University of Glasgow , Glasgow G128QQ , UK
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- Department of Biophysics , Faculty of Sciences , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , De Boeleaan 1081 , 1081HV Amsterdam , The Netherlands .
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics , Charles University , Ke Karlovu 3 , 121 16 Prague , Czech Republic
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Kondo T, Chen WJ, Schlau-Cohen GS. Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Systems. Chem Rev 2017; 117:860-898. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Toru Kondo
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Palacino-González E, Gelin MF, Domcke W. Theoretical aspects of femtosecond double-pump single-molecule spectroscopy. II. Strong-field regime. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:32307-32319. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp04810f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We investigate femtosecond double-pump single-molecule signals in the strong-field regime, which is characterized by nonlinear scaling of the signal with the intensity of the pump pulses.
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technische Universität München
- Garching
- Germany
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technische Universität München
- Garching
- Germany
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Sisto A, Stross C, van der Kamp MW, O’Connor M, McIntosh-Smith S, Johnson GT, Hohenstein EG, Manby FR, Glowacki DR, Martinez TJ. Atomistic non-adiabatic dynamics of the LH2 complex with a GPU-accelerated ab initio exciton model. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:14924-14936. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp00492c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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We present GPU-accelerated ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of nonadiabatic dynamics in the LH2 complex in full atomistic detail.
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- Aaron Sisto
- PULSE Institute and Department of Chemistry
- Stanford University
- Stanford
- USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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- School of Chemistry
- University of Bristol
- Bristol
- UK
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- School of Chemistry
- University of Bristol
- Bristol
- UK
- Department of Computer Science
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- California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
- University of California
- San Francisco
- USA
- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
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- School of Chemistry
- University of Bristol
- Bristol
- UK
- Department of Computer Science
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- PULSE Institute and Department of Chemistry
- Stanford University
- Stanford
- USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Malý P, Gruber JM, van Grondelle R, Mančal T. Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Monomeric LHCII: Experiment and Theory. Sci Rep 2016; 6:26230. [PMID: 27189196 PMCID: PMC4870570 DOI: 10.1038/srep26230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2015] [Accepted: 04/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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We derive approximate equations of motion for excited state dynamics of a multilevel open quantum system weakly interacting with light to describe fluorescence-detected single molecule spectra. Based on the Frenkel exciton theory, we construct a model for the chlorophyll part of the LHCII complex of higher plants and its interaction with previously proposed excitation quencher in the form of the lutein molecule Lut 1. The resulting description is valid over a broad range of timescales relevant for single molecule spectroscopy, i.e. from ps to minutes. Validity of these equations is demonstrated by comparing simulations of ensemble and single-molecule spectra of monomeric LHCII with experiments. Using a conformational change of the LHCII protein as a switching mechanism, the intensity and spectral time traces of individual LHCII complexes are simulated, and the experimental statistical distributions are reproduced. Based on our model, it is shown that with reasonable assumptions about its interaction with chlorophylls, Lut 1 can act as an efficient fluorescence quencher in LHCII.
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- Pavel Malý
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Ke Karlovu 5, CZ-121 16 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Ke Karlovu 5, CZ-121 16 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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