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DYNAMICS OF
MOLECULAR EXCITONS
DYNAMICS OF
MOLECULAR EXCITONS
SEOGJOO J. JANG
Queens College, City University of New York
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Queens, NY, United States
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Contents
About the author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Motivation and objective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Frenkel and Wannier excitons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 Disorder, fluctuations, and measure of delocalization. . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.4 Utility and limitations of exciton models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 2 Microscopic derivation of Frenkel exciton-bath Hamiltonian. 21
2.1 Aggregates of chromophores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.2 Aggregates of chromophores embedded in host media . . . . . . . . . 45
2.3 Summary and additional remarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Chapter 3 Linear spectroscopy of molecular excitons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3.1 Absorption lineshape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.2 Stimulated emission lineshape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
3.3 Model calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3.4 Summary and additional remarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chapter 4 Exciton transfer rates and hopping dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
4.1 Transfer between two exciton states: Förster theory’s and its
generalizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
4.2 Transfer between groups of exciton states. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
4.3 Master equation approaches and long range exciton hopping
dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
4.4 Summary and additional remarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Chapter 5 Quantum dynamics of molecular excitons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
5.1 Projection operator formalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
5.2 Second order approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
5.3 Fourth order approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
viii Contents
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
About the author xi
Preface
Seogjoo J. Jang
New York
December 6, 2019
Acknowledgments xv
Acknowledgments
I thank the late Bob Silbey who taught me a great deal about
molecular excitons when I was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT.
He also continued inspiring me for many years afterwards as a
colleague. Interactions with him were always special. He could
easily explain important ideas and issues in a few minutes, which
helped me understand their implications so quickly and pursue
new ideas efficiently. Writing this book gave me another chance
to interact with him indirectly through his publications, and I am
still learning from works he has completed decades ago.
Although not directly related to this topic, I am heavily in-
debted to Marshall Newton, one of the best critical thinker and
theoretician I am aware of. His broad knowledge and expertise in
electron transfer theories helped me envision a roadmap for de-
veloping theories of exciton transfer and dynamics, which have
remained relatively unexplored in comparison to the field of elec-
tron transfer theories. Communications and interactions with him
helped me evolve through my early formative period as an inde-
pendent theoretician.
There are also many others that I should not forget mention-
ing names for various contributions related to this book. I am
indebted to my mentors at Seoul National University, Sangyoub
Lee and Kook Joe Shin, who first introduced me to Förster theory
and guided my first research on this topic, and to my PhD mentor
Gregory Voth from whom I learned the fundamentals of quantum
dynamics. I would like to thank Jeff Cina, David Reichman, Chris
Bardeen, Yuan-Chung Cheng, Benedetta Mennucci, Joe Subotnik,
Dorthe Eisele, Greg Scholes, Young Min Rhee, David Coker, Jian-
shu Cao, Jasper Knoester, Graham Fleming, and K. Birgitta Whaley
for discussions and help at various stages leading to this work,
and Frank Spano, Ari Chakraborty, Qiang Shi, and Andrew Mar-
cus for allowing me use their images. Support from National Sci-
ence Foundation, the Department of Energy, and Camille Dreyfus
Foundation have made it possible to continue projects that con-
stitute various parts of this book.
I am grateful to the editor of the Nanophotonics Series, Prof.
David Andrews, and the editorial office of Elsevier for support. Fi-
nally, I cannot thank enough my wife who has been truly support-
ive of writing this book. I am happy to dedicate this book to her.
Seogjoo J. Jang
January 28, 2020
Introduction
1
Contents
1.1 Motivation and objective 1
1.2 Frenkel and Wannier excitons 3
1.2.1 A brief overview 3
1.2.2 Model Hamiltonians for Frenkel excitons 6
1.2.2.1 Linear chain 7
1.2.2.2 Circular chain 11
1.2.3 Semiclassical model Hamiltonians for Wannier excitons 15
1.3 Disorder, fluctuations, and measure of delocalization 16
1.4 Utility and limitations of exciton models 18
data, and are perceived as important objects for a few key applica-
tions. However, while data informing the existence and contribu-
tion of excitons abound, accurate and complete information on
excitons is still difficult to get in general. In particular, accurate
measurement of both spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of
excitons, which is crucial for satisfactory microscopic characteri-
zation, remains a challenging area of research even to date.
The difficulty in detailed microscopic characterization of ex-
citons stems in part from their indefinite spatial extents (in
nanometer length scales) and transient dynamical nature (in time
scales typically as short as tens of femtoseconds). Resolving this
issue requires experimental tools that can simultaneously probe
nanometer length scales at femtosecond time resolution, which
remain challenging despite recent advances. The other reason, al-
though less appreciated, is the fact that exciton has often been
perceived by experimentalists as a loosely defined simple object of
semi-empirical nature. This is in contrast to the current status of
computational molecular quantum mechanics, which has come a
long way of constructing sophisticated methods and rigorous mi-
croscopic formulations that can account for various many-body
quantum effects. The gap between these modern practices of
molecular quantum mechanics and the conceptual basis of most
experimental investigation based on old exciton theories, is often
the source of confusion and miscommunication.
For both practical and fundamental reasons, there is increas-
ing demand for accurate characterization and control of excitons
in complex environments. However, for many interesting systems,
the scale and accuracy of calculations necessary for reliable com-
putation of excitonic properties is in general beyond the reach of
rigorous computational methods at present. Significant theoreti-
cal progress is needed for more accurate and microscopic descrip-
tion of excitons as well as for further advances in experimental
probe techniques. In promoting the theoretical progress, it is im-
portant to establish a general theoretical framework for excitons
that is both rigorous and practical. This is one of the main motiva-
tions for this book.
The first objective of this book is to help consolidating many
versions and ideas of excitons into a single theoretical formalism.
While this is an ambitious objective difficult to achieve at present,
this book can set the stage for initiating a long term effort of such
nature. In addition, many assumptions and approximations clar-
ified in this book will help gain better understanding of the dy-
namics and spectroscopic data. The second objective is to offer
comprehensive description of various theories of exciton dynam-
ics along with their applications. There are multiple approaches
Chapter 1 Introduction 3
possible for achieving this goal. The approach taken in this book
is to begin with molecular Hamiltonians. This approach makes
it straightforward to clarify assumptions and approximations im-
plicit in different forms of excitons from the outset. The formal
foundation for this will be provided in the next chapter. In the
rest of this chapter, for motivational purposes, a brief overview of
Frenkel and Wannier excitons is presented. This is then followed
by introduction of simple model Hamiltonians used for describ-
ing such excitons.
A few words on the convention of notations. For exciton states
and Hamiltonians, the first order quantization and the Dirac no-
tation for states and operators will be used in most cases. The sec-
ond quantization will be primarily reserved only for the descrip-
tion of electromagnetic radiation within the quantum electrody-
namics formalism. When appropriate, semiclassical description
of electromagnetic radiation will also be used for the description
of matter-radiation interaction.
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