Abstract
Fluorescence photons emitted by a single molecule trapped in a solid at low temperature are correlated in time. A simple theory of the correlation pattern is presented, including in the same formalism photon antibunching from coherent Rabi oscillations and photon bunching due to incoherent quantum transitions between electronic levels. The correlation method is applied to single pentacene molecules in a para-terphenyl crystal. A clear photon bunching allows us to determine the ISC rates for each molecule. We attribute the scatter of our results for the transition rate between excited singlet and triplet states, and the difference with the average value taken from the literature, to molecular distortions induced by crystal defects in our small sample. We conclude that the correlation method associated to single molecule spectroscopy has a great potential to study dynamical processes on intermediate time scales in condensed matter.
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