Abstract

Energy migration has been studied in C-phycocyanin (C-PC) rods with traps, located in the terminal trimer-disc, using the Monte Carlo method and the system of differential equations.^1,2 It has been found² that jump time statistics can be described by the function F = C (f/〈t₀〉) exp (−t/〈t₀〉) (see Fig. 1), where C is the constant, t and 〈t₀〉 are respectively the exciton localization time (jump time) and its averaged value for chromophores of the corresponding spectral types (α84, β384 or β155). Values 〈t₀〉 were calculated for the cases of C-PC monomers, trimers and higher associates.

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