Vibrational dynamics of glasses at low temperatures: Investigation by single-molecule spectroscopy

2007 ◽  
Vol 125 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 279-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu.G. Vainer
Keyword(s):  
Single Molecule ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Single Molecule Spectroscopy ◽  
Vibrational Dynamics

scholarly journals Low-temperature dynamics in a dye-doped polymer: correspondence between the data obtained by photon echo and single molecule spectroscopy

2018 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 04008
Author(s):  
Kamil Karimullin ◽  
Andrei Naumov
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Single Molecule ◽  
Vibrational Relaxation ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Photon Echo ◽  
Single Molecule Spectroscopy ◽  
Dye Molecules ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Temperature Dynamics ◽  
Doped Polymer

Low temperature dynamics (tunneling and vibrational relaxation) in doped polyisobutylene film has been reinvestigated using 2-pulse incoherent photon echo (2IPE) and compared with single-molecule spectroscopy (SMS) data. It has been shown that in a very wide range of low temperatures the 2IPE gives optical dephasing times which correspond to the narrowest zero-phonon lines of single dye molecules.

Single-molecule spectromicroscopy: a route towards sub-wavelength refractometry

2015 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 263-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Anikushina ◽  
M. G. Gladush ◽  
A. A. Gorshelev ◽  
A. V. Naumov
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Single Molecule ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Radiative Lifetime ◽  
Spatially Resolved ◽  
Local Fluctuations ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Spectral Linewidth ◽  
Spatial Fluctuations ◽  
Sub Wavelength

We suggest a novel approach for spatially resolved probing of local fluctuations of the refractive index n in solids by means of single-molecule (SM) spectroscopy. It is based on the dependence T1(n) of the effective radiative lifetime T1 of dye centres in solids on n due to the local-field effects. Detection of SM zero-phonon lines at low temperatures gives the values of the SM natural spectral linewidth (which is inversely proportional to T1) and makes it possible to reveal the distribution of the local n values in solids. Here we demonstrate this possibility on the example of amorphous polyethylene and polycrystalline naphthalene doped with terrylene. In particular, we show that the obtained distributions of lifetime limited spectral linewidths of terrylene molecules embedded into these matrices are due to the spatial fluctuations of the refractive index local values.

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