Coherent-potential-approximation study of excitonic absorption in orientationally disordered molecular aggregates

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2003-02-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302312v2

Phys. Rev. B 68, 045418 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

RevTeX4, 17 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.optmat.2011.04.008

We study the dynamics of a single Frenkel exciton in a disordered molecular chain. The coherent-potential approximation (CPA) is applied to the situation when the single-molecule excitation energies as well as the transition dipole moments, both their absolute values and orientations, are random. Such model is believed to be relevant for the description of the linear optical properties of one-dimensional $J$ aggregates. We calculate the exciton density of states, the linear absorption spectra and the exciton coherence length which reveals itself in the linear optics. A detailed analysis of the low-disorder limit of the theory is presented. In particular, we derive asymptotic formulas relating the absorption linewidth and the exciton coherence length to the strength of disorder. Such expressions account simultaneously for all the above types of disorder and reduce to well-established form when no disorder in the transition dipoles is present. The theory is applied to the case of purely orientational disorder and is shown to agree well with exact numerical diagonalization.

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