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Dynamics of Forster Energy Migration Across Polymer Chains in Solution

G. Srinivas·A. Yethiraj·B. Bagchi
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Long distance excitation energy transfer between a donor and an acceptor embedded in a polymer chain is usually assumed to occur via the Forster mechanism which predicts a 1/R^6 distance dependence of the transfer rate, where R is the distance between the donor and the acceptor. In solution R fluctuates with time. In this work, a Brownian dynamics simulation of a polymer chain with Forster enregy transfer between the two ends is carried out and the time dependence of the survival probability S_p(t) is obtained. The latter can be measured by the flourescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) technique, which is now widely used to study conformations of biopolymers via the single molecule spectroscopy. It is found that the suvival probability is exponential-like when the Forster radius (R_F) is comparable to the root mean square radius(L) of the polymer chain. The decay is strongly non-exponential both for small and large (R_F), and also for large k_F. Large deviations from Wilemski-Fixman theory is obtained when R_F is significantly differnet from L.

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G. Srinivas, A. Yethiraj, B. Bagchi. 2000-06-28. Dynamics of Forster Energy Migration Across Polymer Chains in Solution. https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0006198

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