PMID- 37165786 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20230524 LR - 20230524 IS - 1463-9084 (Electronic) IS - 1463-9076 (Linking) VI - 25 IP - 20 DP - 2023 May 24 TI - Excitation dynamics in photosynthetic light-harvesting complex B850: exact solution versus Redfield and Forster limits. PG - 14219-14231 LID - 10.1039/d3cp00671a [doi] AB - We model the excitation dynamics in bacterial B850 antenna using the standard Redfield, modified Redfield, and Forster approaches and comparing them with the exact solution obtained with hierarchical equation of motion (HEOM). We have found that the modified Redfield is capable of reproducing the dynamics associated with downhill relaxation from higher exciton levels, but fails to explain the migration of quasi-equilibrated excitation over the B850 ring (and its spectral signatures like transient anisotropy decay). Neglecting the population-to-coherence transfers leads to a quick decoherence between the exciton states resulting in unrealistically fast delocalization looking like instantaneous transfer around the ring. The standard (non-secular) Redfield gives a more satisfactory picture of this kind of migration, but in some cases the results can be corrupted by artifacts emerging from the one-phonon character of this theory. FAU - Novoderezhkin, Vladimir I AU - Novoderezhkin VI AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4583-5725 AD - A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 119992, Moscow, Russia. v.novoderezhkin@gmail.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230524 PL - England TA - Phys Chem Chem Phys JT - Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP JID - 100888160 SB - IM EDAT- 2023/05/11 06:42 MHDA- 2023/05/11 06:43 CRDT- 2023/05/11 04:08 PHST- 2023/05/11 06:43 [medline] PHST- 2023/05/11 06:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/05/11 04:08 [entrez] AID - 10.1039/d3cp00671a [doi] PST - epublish SO - Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2023 May 24;25(20):14219-14231. doi: 10.1039/d3cp00671a.