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Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volume 70, 2019

Triplet-Pair States in Organic Semiconductors

Abstract

Entanglement of states is one of the most surprising and counterintuitive consequences of quantum mechanics, with potent applications in cryptography and computing. In organic semiconductor materials, one particularly significant manifestation is the spin-entangled triplet-pair state, which consists of a pair of localized triplet excitons coupled into an overall spin-0, -1, or -2 configuration. The most widely analyzed of these is the spin-0 pair, denoted 1(TT), which was initially invoked in the 1960s to explain delayed fluorescence in acene films. It is considered an essential gateway state for triplet-triplet annihilation and the reverse process, singlet fission, enabling interconversion between one singlet and two triplet excitons without any change in overall spin. This state has returned to the forefront of organic materials research in recent years, thanks both to its central role in the resurgent field of singlet fission and to its implication in a host of exotic new photophysical behaviors. Here we review the properties of triplet-pair states, from first principles to recent experimental results.

Keyword(s): entanglement, exchange coupling, quintet, singlet fission, triplet pair, triplet-triplet annihilation
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Triplet-Pair States in Organic Semiconductors
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 70, 323 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-physchem-042018-052435
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