Fermiis Golden Rule

A strict quantum mechanical calculation of a tunneling system the size of a protein quickly becomes intractably complex. Fortunately, relatively simple theory has been successful at organizing and predicting electron tunneling rates in proteins. When the donor and acceptor redox centers are well separated, non-adiabatic electron transfer theory applies Fermiis Golden Rule, in which the rate of electron transfer is proportional to two terms, one electronic. Hah, and the other nuclear, FC (Devault, 1980). 

Applying Fermiis golden rule, the rate of the electron transfer reaction is determined by the product of the probability of the nuclear transition occurring (the Franck-Condon term, FC)) and the probability of the electron tunnelling occurring ... 

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