Exploring the effects of photon correlations from thermal sources on bacterial photosynthesis

Autor:	Manrique, Pedro, Caycedo-Soler, Felipe, De Mendoza, Adriana, Rodríguez, Ferney, Quiroga, Luis, Johnson, Neil
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Physics - Biological Physics Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter Nonlinear Sciences - Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Quantum Physics
Zdroj:	Results in Physics, 6, (2016) 957-960
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Thermal light sources can produce photons with strong spatial correlations. We study the role that these correlations might potentially play in bacterial photosynthesis. Our findings show a relationship between the transversal distance between consecutive absorption and the efficiency of the photosynthetic process. Furthermore, membranes where the clustering of core complexes (so-called RC-LH1) is high, display a range where the organism profits maximally from the spatial correlation of the incoming light. By contrast, no maximum is found for membranes with low core-core clustering. We employ a detailed membrane model with state-of-the-art empirical inputs. Our results suggest that the organization of the membrane's antenna complexes may be well-suited to the spatial correlations present in an natural light source. Future experiments will be needed to test this prediction. Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07309 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv