FIGURE 4. Quantum beating in cross peaks.

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Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems

Gregory S. Engel, Tessa R. Calhoun, Elizabeth L. Read, Tae-Kyu Ahn, Tomás caron Manc caronal, Yuan-Chung Cheng, Robert E. Blankenship & Graham R. Fleming

Nature 446, 782-786(12 April 2007)

doi:10.1038/nature05678

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a, The raw amplitude of the exciton 1–3 cross-peak, with a Fourier interpolation of the points (dotted line). b, The power spectrum of this interpolation (dotted line), the exciton beating line spectra of both excitons 1 and 3 (black), and the 1–3 beat frequency (red). We expect that the other frequencies may couple to this cross-peak but that the dominant frequency corresponds to the red transition. The apparent low-frequency peak is due to the growth of the cross-peak amplitude and appears as a peak because the data were de-meaned (mean subtracted from the data) before the transform to improve numerical accuracy, pinning the zero-frequency component to zero.

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