Ground State of the Exciton-Phonon System

Shore, Herbert B.; Sander, Leonard M.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.7.4537

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“…Exact calculations for the the full quantum mechanical system have been made for small systems [22][23][24]. For extended systems, studies in which both the electron and the lattice are treated quantum mechanically usually require approximations either regarding the relative strength of the parameters [2,4,5] or in the wavefunctions considered [21,25,26,8,[10][11][12].…”

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Interplay between dispersive and non-dispersive modes in the polaron problem

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Interplay between dispersive and non-dispersive modes in the polaron problem

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“…One of the most well-known, the quantum Rabi model [1], is a phenomenological Hamiltonian describing interactions between a two-level system and a cavity mode. The model has also formed a basis of understanding for exciton-phonon interactions [4] and, along with its multi-mode extension, has numerous established applications in chemistry and physics (see [5][6][7] and refs. therein).…”

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Quantum Rabi Model forN-State Atoms

Albert

2012

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A tractable N -state Rabi Hamiltonian is introduced by extending the parity symmetry of the two-state model. The single-mode case provides a few-parameter description of a novel class of periodic systems, predicting that the ground state of certain four-state atom-cavity systems will undergo parity change at strong coupling. A group-theoretical treatment provides physical insight into dynamics and a modified rotating wave approximation obtains accurate analytical energies. The dissipative case can be applied to study excitation energy transfer in molecular rings or chains. Interactions between spin systems and harmonic oscillators (boson modes) have been studied for over 70 years [1][2][3]. One of the most well-known, the quantum Rabi model [1], is a phenomenological Hamiltonian describing interactions between a two-level system and a cavity mode. The model has also formed a basis of understanding for exciton-phonon interactions [4] and, along with its multi-mode extension, has numerous established applications in chemistry and physics (see [5][6][7] and refs. therein). The Jaynes-Cummings (J-C) [3] model is obtained by taking the Rabi model in the rotating wave approximation (RWA), where the "counter-rotating" terms are ignored (see e.g. [8]). While the J-C model is sufficient to study small atom-field coupling, the RWA breaks down at large coupling [9,10] Many-site spin-boson interaction, e.g. multi-state atom-cavity interaction [14] or excitation energy transfer in multi-chromophoric systems [15], continues to be a subject of significant interest, dictating a need for extensions of the two-state model. Extensions of the J-C model have been studied extensively [16][17][18][19], but are no longer applicable in the strong-coupling regime. Exciton-phonon generalizations which extend the parity/reflection symmetry of the Rabi system [20] are neither tractable nor applicable to atom-cavity systems. Most importantly, the Rabi model is the single-mode version of a dissipative (infinite-mode) spin-boson model [21], signifying that light-matter interaction is a simplified manifestation of a more fundamental interaction between a two-state system and a dissipative environment. Previous dissipative [22][23][24][25] generalizations have neither extended the symmetry nor preserved this correspondence. Motivated by these properties, this Letter presents a symmetry-preserving N -state extension of the Rabi model. The extension includes counter-rotating terms in a rigorous, intuitive, and mathematically manageable way, using a minimal number of parameters and paving the way for applications to multi-level atom-cavity experiments at both weak and strong coupling. A grouptheoretical approach [2] provides numerical advantages and physical insight into dynamics of the single-mode case. The symmetric generalized RWA [7] is applied to obtain accurate analytical energies/eigenstates valid for strong coupling. The above procedures are significantly simplified via the generalized spin matrices [26], providing a new tool for the treat...

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“…The eigenvalues and eigenstates obtained from diagonalizing this 2L x 2L matrix approximate the 2L lowest eigenvalues and eigenstates of (1) [11]. In practice we have found that four-digit accuracy for the 8lowest eigenvalues could be achieved with L≤ 64, for the whole range of physically meaningful values of h, Ω and C. Similar ideas have already been employed to study the ground-state properties of an exciton-phonon system [12]. In the present letter the knowledge of the low-lying states is exploited to investigate the time-dependent properties.…”

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“…1. In contrast to Ω~, it decreases monotonically with the spin-phonon coupling C and fits extremely well [12] to…”

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