Frenkel Excitons in Random Systems With Correlated Gaussian Disorder

TL;DR

This paper investigates how Gaussian disorder, both correlated and uncorrelated, affects the optical absorption spectra of Frenkel excitons in one-dimensional systems, highlighting differences in broadening due to scattering effects.

Contribution

It compares uncorrelated and correlated Gaussian disorder models, revealing how correlations influence spectral broadening and scattering in excitonic systems.

Findings

Red shift and broadening increase with disorder width

Broader absorption lines in correlated (dimer) models

Differences between models grow with disorder strength

Abstract

Optical absorption spectra of Frenkel excitons in random one-dimensional systems are presented. Two models of inhomogeneous broadening, arising from a Gaussian distribution of on-site energies, are considered. In one case the on-site energies are uncorrelated variables whereas in the second model the on-site energies are pairwise correlated (dimers). We observe a red shift and a broadening of the absorption line on increasing the width of the Gaussian distribution. In the two cases we find that the shift is the same, within our numerical accuracy, whereas the broadening is larger when dimers are introduced. The increase of the width of the Gaussian distribution leads to larger differences between uncorrelated and correlated disordered models. We suggest that this higher broadening is due to stronger scattering effects from dimers.