Localization properties of one-dimensional Frenkel excitons: Gaussian versus Lorentzian diagonal disorder

Abstract

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.

arXiv comment9 two-column pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B

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