https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134107020
Mixed Potential Energy Surfaces of the Ultrafast Isomerization of Retinal in Bacteriorhodopsin
1 Institute for Optical Sciences and Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
2 Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, 1 King’s College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
3 Max Planck Research Department for Structural Dynamics, Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Centre for Free Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
4 Department of Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, 1 King’s College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
a e-mail: dwayne.miller@mpsd.cfel.de
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.
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