In an approach analogous to that used to treat electronic currents in semiconductor quantum dots, we investigate the exciton current in a pigment network that is sandwiched between two exciton reservoirs, also known as the emitter and the acceptor. Employing the master equation for the reduced density matrix, the exciton current is obtained analytically for a two-site model, and numerically for...

Whispering-gallery-mode resonators have been extensively used in conjunction with different materials for the development of a variety of photonic devices. Among the latter, hybrid structures, consisting of dielectric microspheres and colloidal core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals as gain media, have attracted interest for the development of microlasers and studies of cavity quantum electrodyn...

We report direct measurements of the excess polarizability volumes of butadiyne-bridged zinc porphyrin dimers at singly beta-to-beta (1Zn) and doubly beta-to-beta (2Zn) positions using the transient dc photoconductivity (TDCP) technique. The excess polarizability volumes of the singlet exciton for 1Zn and 2Zn are 110 and 270 A(3), respectively, while those of the triplet exciton are approximate...

The experimental data on triplet exciton transport in isotopically mixed crystals of naphthalene/ perdeuteronaphthalene (paper I) are contrasted with singlet exciton transport in the same samples (20%-100%) and analyzed in terms of incoherent hopping models. The master equation approach is emphasized and extended. We modify the conventional continuum master equations via a physically plausible ...

Application of 2D Fourier transform electronic spectroscopy to semiconducting SWNTs is demonstrated to decongest complex exciton dynamics. Analysis provides the E22 homogeneous linewidth, and elucidates the roles of vibrational and multi-exciton states in population relaxation.

We present a generic model for the description of non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensates, suited for the modelling of non-resonantly pumped polariton condensates in a semiconductor microcavity. The excitation spectrum and scattering of the non-equilibrium condensate with a defect are discussed.

We calculate exciton energy of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). The exciton energy depends on the surrounding materials of the SWNT [1]. This environmental effect is expressed by the dielectric constant [2]. In previous paper we used the static dielectric constant in order to reproduce the resonance Raman experiment for bundle samples [3,4]. However, since the dielectric constant depends o...

We demonstrate control over the spin state of a semiconductor quantum dot exciton using a polarized picosecond laser pulse slightly detuned from a biexciton resonance. The control pulse follows an earlier pulse, which generates an exciton and initializes its spin state as a coherent superposition of its two nondegenerate eigenstates. The control pulse preferentially couples one component of the...

We study the transport of collective excitations (Frenkel excitons) in systems with static disorder in the transition energies, not limiting ourselves to Gaussian transition energy distributions. Instead, we generalize this model to the wider class of Lévy stable distributions, characterized by heavy tails. Phonon-assisted scattering of excitons, localized by the disorder, leads to thermally ac...

Single excitons in semiconductor microcavities represent a solid state and scalable platform for cavity quantum electrodynamics, potentially enabling an interface between flying (photon) and static (exciton) quantum bits in future quantum networks. While both single-photon emission and the strong coupling regime have been demonstrated, further progress has been hampered by the inability to cont...