Two stage decoherence of optical phonons in long oligomers

Alexander L. Burin; Igor V. Rubtsov

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Two stage decoherence of optical phonons in long oligomers

Alexander L. Burin·Igor V. Rubtsov

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Intramolecular energy transport is generally responsible for chemical energy balance in molecular systems. The transport is fast and efficient if energy is transferred by optical phonons in periodic oligomers, but its efficiently is limited by decoherence emerging due to anharmonic interactions with acoustic phonons. We show that in the most common case of the optical phonon band being narrower than the acoustic bands decoherence takes place in two stages. The faster stage involves optical phonon multiple forward scattering due to absorption and emission of transverse acoustic phonons, i. e. collective bending modes with a quadratic spectrum; the transport remains ballistic and the speed can be altered. The subsequent slower stage involves phonon backscattering in multiphonon processes involving two or more acostic phonons resulting is a switch to diffusive transport. If the initially excited optical phonon possesses a relatively small group velocity, then its equilibration in the first stage is accompanied by its acceleration due to its transitions to states propagating faster. This theoretical expectation is consistent with the recent measurements of optical phonon transport in alkane chains, accelerating with increasing the chain length.

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Alexander L. Burin, Igor V. Rubtsov. 2024-06-08. Two stage decoherence of optical phonons in long oligomers. https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05541

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