Predicting the Frequency Dispersion of Electronic Hyperpolarizabilities on the Basis of Absorption Data and Thomas−Kuhn Sum Rules

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

MeSH Terms

Physicochemical Processes

Subject: LCSH

Chemical processes

Disciplines

Chemical Engineering | Chemistry

Abstract

Successfully predicting the frequency dispersion of electronic hyperpolarizabilities is an unresolved challenge in materials science and electronic structure theory. We show that the generalized Thomas−Kuhn sum rules, combined with linear absorption data and measured hyperpolarizability at one or two frequencies, may be used to predict the entire frequency-dependent electronic hyperpolarizability spectrum. This treatment includes two- and three-level contributions that arise from the lowest two or three excited electronic state manifolds, enabling us to describe the unusual observed frequency dispersion of the dynamic hyperpolarizability in high oscillator strength M-PZn chromophores, where (porphinato)zinc(II) (PZn) and metal(II)polypyridyl (M) units are connected via an ethyne unit that aligns the high oscillator strength transition dipoles of these components in a head-to-tail arrangement. We show that some of these structures can possess very similar linear absorption spectra yet manifest dramatically different frequency-dependent hyperpolarizabilities, because of three-level contributions that result from excited state-to-excited state transition dipoles among charge polarized states. Importantly, this approach provides a quantitative scheme to use linear optical absorption spectra and very limited individual hyperpolarizability measurements to predict the entire frequency-dependent nonlinear optical response.

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DOI

10.1021/jp911556x

Publisher Citation

Hu, X., Xiao, D., Keinan, S., Asselberghs, I., Therien, M. J., Clays, K., … Beratan, D. N. (2010). Predicting the Frequency Dispersion of Electronic Hyperpolarizabilities on the Basis of Absorption Data and Thomas−Kuhn Sum Rules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114(5), 2349–2359. http://doi.org/10.1021/jp911556x

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