A theoretical investigation of the low lying electronic structure of poly(p-phenylene vinylene)

Details A theoretical investigation of the low lying electronic structure of poly(p-phenylene vinylene) A theoretical investigation of the low lying electronic structure of poly(p-phenylene vinylene)

1999-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9901115v1

Physical Review B 59, pp. 9987-94 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

LaTeX, 19 pages, 7 eps figures included using epsf. To appear in Physical Review B, 1999

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.59.9987

The two-state molecular orbital model of the one-dimensional phenyl-based semiconductors is applied to poly(p-phenylene vinylene). The energies of the low-lying excited states are calculated using the density matrix renormalization group method. Calculations of both the exciton size and the charge gap show that there are both Bu and Ag excitonic levels below the band threshold. The energy of the 1Bu exciton extrapolates to 2.60 eV in the limit of infinite polymers, while the energy of the 2Ag exciton extrapolates to 2.94 eV. The calculated binding energy of the 1Bu exciton is 0.9 eV for a 13 phenylene unit chain and 0.6 eV for an infinite polymer. This is expected to decrease due to solvation effects. The lowest triplet state is calculated to be at ca. 1.6 eV, with the triplet-triplet gap being ca. 1.6 eV. A comparison between theory, and two-photon absorption and electroabsorption is made, leading to a consistent picture of the essential states responsible for most of the third-order nonlinear optical properties. An interpretation of the experimental nonlinear optical spectroscopies suggests an energy difference of ca. 0.4 eV between the vertical energy and ca. 0.8 eV between the relaxed energy, of the 1Bu exciton and the band gap, respectively.

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