  Singlet fission is an important candidate to increase energy conversion
efficiency in organic photovoltaics by providing a pathway to increase the
quantum yield of excitons per photon absorbed in select materials. We
investigate the dependence of exciton quantum yield for acenes in the strong
light-matter interaction (polariton) regime, where the materials are embedded
in optical microcavities. Starting from an open-quantum-systems approach, we
build a kinetic model for time-evolution of species of interest in the presence
of quenchers and show that polaritons can decrease or increase exciton quantum
yields compared to the cavity-free case. In particular, we find that hexacene,
a typically poor singlet-fission candidate, can feature a higher yield than
cavity-free pentacene when assisted by polaritonic effects. Similarly, we show
that pentacene yield can be increased when assisted by polariton states.
Finally, we address how various relaxation processes between bright and dark
states in lossy microcavities affect polariton photochemistry. Our results also
provide insights on how to choose microcavities to enhance similarly related
chemical processes.

Applied Physics;Chemical Physics;Quantum Physics