AUTHORS: Pavel Heřman, David Zapletal

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ABSTRACT: Light–harvesting (LH) pigment–protein complexes interact with their environment, which strongly influences their properties. Slow fluctuations of environment could be modeled by different types of static disorder. LH2 complex from purple bacteria is investigated in present paper. This complex consists of two bacteriochlorophyll rings (B850 ring and B800 ring). Distributions of the nearest neighbour transfer integrals in B800 ring and the nearest neighbour transfer integrals connecting B850 and B800 ring are presented. The most important statistical properties are calculated, discussed and compared in case of uncorrelated static disorder in radial positions of bacteriochorophyll molecules.

KEYWORDS: B800 ring, B850 ring, LH2 complex, Hamiltonian, static disorder, transfer integral distributions

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