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Theory of photon statistics in single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer

Irina Gopich1, Attila Szabo

  • 1Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. gopich@nih.gov

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|January 11, 2005
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