Excitonic spectral features in strongly coupled organic polaritons

Justyna Agnieszka Cwik, Peter George Kirton, Simone de Liberato, Jonathan Mark James Keeling

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Abstract

Starting from a microscopic model, we investigate the optical spectra of molecules in strongly coupled organic microcavities examining how they might self-consistently adapt their coupling to light. We consider both rotational and vibrational degrees of freedom, focusing on features which can be seen in the peak in the center of the spectrum at the bare excitonic frequency. In both cases we find that the matter-light coupling can lead to a self-consistent change of the molecular states, with consequent temperature-dependent signatures in the absorption spectrum. However, for typical parameters, these effects are much too weak to explain recent measurements. We show that another mechanism which naturally arises from our model of vibrationally dressed polaritons has the right magnitude and temperature dependence to be at the origin of the observed data.
Original languageEnglish
Article number033840
Number of pages12
JournalPhysical Review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Volume93
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Mar 2016

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