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Probing quantum-mechanical level repulsion in disordered systems by means of time-resolved selectively-excited resonance fluorescence
We argue that the time-resolved spectrum of selectively-excited resonance
fluorescence at low temperature provides a tool for probing the
quantum-mechanical level repulsion in the Lifshits tail of the electronic
density of states in a wide variety of disordered materials. The technique,
based on detecting the fast growth of a fluorescence peak that is red-shifted
relative to the excitation frequency, is demonstrated explicitly by simulations
on linear Frenkel exciton chains.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Low-temperature dynamics of weakly localized Frenkel excitons in disordered linar chains
We calculate the temperature dependence of the fluorescence Stokes shift and
the fluorescence decay time in linear Frenkel exciton systems resulting from
the thermal redistribution of exciton population over the band states. The
following factors, relevant to common experimental conditions, are accounted
for in our kinetic model: (weak) localization of the exciton states by static
disorder, coupling of the localized excitons to vibrations in the host medium,
a possible non-equilibrium of the subsystem of localized Frenkel excitons on
the time scale of the emission process, and different excitation conditions
(resonant or non resonant). A Pauli master equation, with microscopically
calculated transition rates, is used to describe the redistribution of the
exciton population over the manifold of localized exciton states. We find a
counterintuitive non-monotonic temperature dependence of the Stokes shift. In
addition, we show that depending on experimental conditions, the observed
fluorescence decay time may be determined by vibration-induced intra-band
relaxation, rather than radiative relaxation to the ground state. The model
considered has relevance to a wide variety of materials, such as linear
molecular aggregates, conjugated polymers, and polysilanes.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figure
Localization properties of one-dimensional Frenkel excitons: Gaussian versus Lorentzian diagonal disorder
We compare localization properties of one-dimensional Frenkel excitons with
Gaussian and Lorentzian uncorrelated diagonal disorder. We focus on the states
of the Lifshits tail, which dominate the optical response and low-temperature
energy transport in molecular J-aggregates. The absence of exchange narrowing
in chains with Lorentzian disorder is shown to manifest itself in the disorder
scaling of the localization length distribution. Also, we show that the local
exciton level structure of the Lifshits tail differs substantially for these
two types of disorder: In addition to the singlets and doublets of localized
states near the bare band edge, strongly resembling those found for Gaussian
disorder, for Lorentzian disorder two other types of states are found in this
energy region as well, namely multiplets of three or four states localized on
the same chain segment and isolated states localized on short segments.
Finally, below the Lifshits tail, Lorentzian disorder induces strongly
localized exciton states, centered around low energy sites, with localization
properties that strongly depend on energy. For Gaussian disorder with a
magnitude that does not exceed the exciton bandwidth, the likelihood to find
such very deep states is exponentially small.Comment: 9 two-column pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Nonlinear resonance reflection from and transmission through a dense glassy system built up of oriented linear Frenkel chains: two-level models
A theoretical study of the resonance optical response of assemblies of
oriented short (as compared to an optical wavelength) linear Frenkel chains is
carried out using a two-level model. We show that both transmittivity and
reflectivity of the film may behave in a bistable fashion and analyze how the
effects found depend on the film thickness and on the inhomogeneous width of
the exciton optical transition.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figure
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