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We report results of an optical and picosecond photon echo study on the zero-phonon line of photosite I of pentacene in benzoic acid. The results show that optical dephasing in this system proceeds via uncorrelated phonon scattering processes from the ground and optically excited state to singly-excited librational levels. It is also shown that the data can not be consistently interpreted using coherence exchange theory. The librational frequencies and lifetimes at low temperature are determined to be 12 cm and 18 psec in the ground state and 16.7 cm-1and 2.5 psec in the singlet excited state. It is argued that population decay of librational overtones proceeds in single quantum steps down the librational ladder which excludes these modes from playing a role in optical dephasing.
From a temperature-dependent. lineshape study of the libronic transition in absorption it is concluded that the low-temperature librational lifetime is primarily due to resonant decay into acoustic phonons. At elevated temperature cubic libration-phonon anharmonicity dominates the librational lifetime. These lifetime shortening processes are reflected in the temperature dependent dephasing of the origin. With the dephasing model presented in this paper for photosite I, existing controversies concerning optical dephasing in the unburned origin of pentacene in benzoic acid can be resolved.
Finally lineshape studies performed by other groups are discussed in light of the results reported in this paper.
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Molenkamp, L.W., Wiersma, D.A. (1984). Verification of Optical Redfield Theory in Doped Molecular Solids. In: Eisenthal, K.B. (eds) Applications of Picosecond Spectroscopy to Chemistry. NATO ASI Series, vol 127. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6427-3_7
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