Assistance needed for defining excited correlated initial state for HEOM emission spectrum

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AMIT UPADHYAY

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Feb 9, 2026, 9:31:22 AM (13 days ago) Feb 9
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Dear QuTiP community,

I hope you are doing well.

I am currently working on a QuTiP implementation to simulate the linear emission spectrum of a single molecule modeled using a Frenkel-exciton Hamiltonian (as shown in the attached figure). However, I am obtaining a negligible Stokes shift, which suggests that the excited system–bath correlated equilibrium state used as the initial condition for the second-stage HEOM propagation may not be constructed correctly.

In particular, I would be grateful for guidance on how to properly define the hierarchy state (including ADOs) required as the initial condition for the second HEOMSolver run, which is needed to compute the dipole–dipole autocorrelation function.

For clarity, my current procedure is as follows:

  1. I start from an initial uncorrelated system–bath state and propagate the HEOMSolver until it reaches the steady state, which I use as the equilibrium state for emission calculations.

  2. I then take the full set of steady-state ADOs and pre-multiply each ADO by the dipole moment operator.

  3. Finally, I use this modified set of ADOs as the initial hierarchy state for a second HEOMSolver propagation to obtain the reduced density matrix dynamics and compute the dipole correlation function.

Despite this, the resulting emission spectrum shows an unexpectedly small Stokes shift.

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions or corrections regarding the proper construction of the excited correlated initial hierarchy state in this context. I have attached my QuTiP code for reference.

Thank you very much for your time and support.

Sincerely,
Amit Upadhyay


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AMIT UPADHYAY

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Feb 13, 2026, 11:38:27 PM (8 days ago) Feb 13
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Dear Dr. J.R. Johansson,

This is the reminder to my previous email. I request you to suggest me something on this problem, if possible.

Thank you for your time and support.

Best regards,
Amit

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Neill Lambert

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Feb 14, 2026, 8:49:27 AM (8 days ago) Feb 14
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Dear Amit,

Your procedure sounds correct to me, and I had a quick look at the notebook and what you do with the ADOs looks sensible (there's some annoying ADO transpose step which is a bit user unfriendly, but if i remember i  think you do it correctly...).  I will play a little with it and see if I can spot any issue.

when you say the stokes shift is smaller than you expected, what did you expect? are you trying to reproduce a known result from a paper?

thanks
neill

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AMIT UPADHYAY

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Feb 15, 2026, 12:31:56 PM (7 days ago) Feb 15
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Dear Dr. Neill,

Thank you for your kind response. I greatly appreciate your time and consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you further.

I expect the Stokes shift (i.e., the difference between the absorption and emission peak positions) to be approximately twice the reorganization energy. This is also illustrated in the attached figure, where the emission lineshape is shown in green and the absorption lineshape in magenta. The figure was generated using a Fortran code written by one of my colleagues.

For your reference, I am also attaching my absorption spectra code.

Best regards,
Amit


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