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First principles modeling of exciton-polaritons in polydiacetylene chains

Abstract

Exciton-polaritons in organic materials are hybrid states that result from the strong interaction of photons and the bound excitons that these materials host. Organic polaritons hold great interest for optoelectronic applications; however, progress toward this end has been impeded by the lack of a first principles approach that quantifies light–matter interactions in these systems, which would allow the formulation of molecular design rules. Here, we present a theoretical framework that combines first principles calculations for excitons with classical electrodynamics in order to quantify light–matter interactions. We exemplify our approach by studying variants of the conjugated polymer polydiacetylene, and we show that a large polymer conjugation length is critical toward strong exciton–photon coupling, hence underlying the importance of pure structures without static disorder. By comparing to our experimental reflectivity measurements, we show that the coupling of excitons to vibrations, manifested by phonon side bands in the absorption, has a strong impact on the magnitude of light–matter coupling over a range of frequencies. Our approach opens the way toward a deeper understanding of polaritons in organic materials, and we highlight that a quantitatively accurate calculation of the exciton–photon interaction would require accounting for all sources of disorder self-consistently.
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hal-02938740 , version 1 (16-09-2020)

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Antonios M. Alvertis, Raj Pandya, Claudio Quarti, Laurent Legrand, Thierry Barisien, et al.. First principles modeling of exciton-polaritons in polydiacetylene chains. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020, 153 (8), pp.084103. ⟨10.1063/5.0019009⟩. ⟨hal-02938740⟩
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