1. Exactly soluble model of resonant energy transfer between molecules
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V. Renugopalakrishnan, Christopher King, David K. Moser, and Bernardo Barbiellini
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Physics ,Physics::Biological Physics ,Quantitative Biology::Biomolecules ,Resonant inductive coupling ,Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics ,biology ,Exciton ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Bacteriorhodopsin ,Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,Quantitative Biology::Quantitative Methods ,Förster resonance energy transfer ,Quantum dot ,Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) ,biology.protein ,Atomic physics ,Spectroscopy ,Quantum ,Coherence (physics) - Abstract
F\"orster's theory of resonant energy transfer (FRET) predicts the strength and range of exciton transport between separated molecules. We introduce an exactly soluble model for FRET which reproduces F\"orster's results as well as incorporating quantum coherence effects. As an application the model is used to analyze a system composed of quantum dots and the protein bacteriorhodopsin., Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures
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- 2012
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