EPJ Web of Conferences (Mar 2013)

Mixed Potential Energy Surfaces of the Ultrafast Isomerization of Retinal in Bacteriorhodopsin

  • Prokhorenko Valentyn I.,
  • Morizumi Takefumi,
  • Halpin Alexei,
  • Johnson Philip J. M.,
  • Ernst Oliver P.,
  • Dwayne Miller R. J.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134107020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 41
p. 07020

Abstract

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We observe, using electronic two-dimensional photon echo spectroscopy, that the cis and trans potential energy surfaces of the ultrafast isomerization of retinal in bacteriorhodopsin are mixed via the hydrogen out of plane (HOOP) mode.