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Energy-level scheme describing electronic (dashed horizontal arrows) and vibrational (wavy vertical arrows) energy relaxation in carotenoids along a reaction coordinate. Coloured vertical arrows indicate allowed electronic transitions. Electronic states are labelled in ket notation. (Reproduced with modification from [104] with permission.)
