The symmetrical quasi-classical approach to electronically nonadiabatic dynamics applied to ultrafast exciton migration processes in semiconducting polymers
Abstract
In the last several years, a symmetrical quasi-classical (SQC) windowing model applied to the classical Meyer-Miller (MM) vibronic Hamiltonian has been shown to be a simple, efficient, general, and quite-accurate method for treating electronically nonadiabatic processes at the totally classical level. Here, the SQC/MM methodology is applied to ultrafast exciton dynamics in a Frenkel/site-exciton model of oligothiophene (OT) as a model of organic semiconductor polymers. In order to keep the electronic representation as compact and efficient as possible, the adiabatic version of the MM Hamiltonian was employed, with dynamical calculations carried out in the recently developed “kinematic momentum” representation, from which site/monomer-specific (diabatic) excitation probabilities were extracted using a new procedure developed in this work. The SQC/MM simulation results are seen to describe coherent exciton transport driven by planarization of a central torsion defect in the OT oligomer as well as to capture exciton self-trapping effects in good agreement with benchmark quantum calculations using the multi-layer multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree approach. The SQC/MM calculations are also seen to significantly outperform the standard Ehrenfest approach, which shows serious discrepancies. Furthermore, these results are encouraging, not only because they illustrate a significant further application of the SQC/MM approach and its utility, but becausemore »
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- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Goethe Univ. Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
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- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1543869
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- OSTI ID: 1461248
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 149; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Chemistry; Physics
Citation Formats
Liang, Ruibin, Cotton, Stephen J., Binder, Robert, Hegger, Rainer, Burghardt, Irene, and Miller, William H. The symmetrical quasi-classical approach to electronically nonadiabatic dynamics applied to ultrafast exciton migration processes in semiconducting polymers. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.5037815.
Liang, Ruibin, Cotton, Stephen J., Binder, Robert, Hegger, Rainer, Burghardt, Irene, & Miller, William H. The symmetrical quasi-classical approach to electronically nonadiabatic dynamics applied to ultrafast exciton migration processes in semiconducting polymers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5037815
Liang, Ruibin, Cotton, Stephen J., Binder, Robert, Hegger, Rainer, Burghardt, Irene, and Miller, William H. Mon .
"The symmetrical quasi-classical approach to electronically nonadiabatic dynamics applied to ultrafast exciton migration processes in semiconducting polymers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5037815. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1543869.
@article{osti_1543869,
title = {The symmetrical quasi-classical approach to electronically nonadiabatic dynamics applied to ultrafast exciton migration processes in semiconducting polymers},
author = {Liang, Ruibin and Cotton, Stephen J. and Binder, Robert and Hegger, Rainer and Burghardt, Irene and Miller, William H.},
abstractNote = {In the last several years, a symmetrical quasi-classical (SQC) windowing model applied to the classical Meyer-Miller (MM) vibronic Hamiltonian has been shown to be a simple, efficient, general, and quite-accurate method for treating electronically nonadiabatic processes at the totally classical level. Here, the SQC/MM methodology is applied to ultrafast exciton dynamics in a Frenkel/site-exciton model of oligothiophene (OT) as a model of organic semiconductor polymers. In order to keep the electronic representation as compact and efficient as possible, the adiabatic version of the MM Hamiltonian was employed, with dynamical calculations carried out in the recently developed “kinematic momentum” representation, from which site/monomer-specific (diabatic) excitation probabilities were extracted using a new procedure developed in this work. The SQC/MM simulation results are seen to describe coherent exciton transport driven by planarization of a central torsion defect in the OT oligomer as well as to capture exciton self-trapping effects in good agreement with benchmark quantum calculations using the multi-layer multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree approach. The SQC/MM calculations are also seen to significantly outperform the standard Ehrenfest approach, which shows serious discrepancies. Furthermore, these results are encouraging, not only because they illustrate a significant further application of the SQC/MM approach and its utility, but because they strongly suggest that classical mechanical simulations (with the potential for linear scaling efficiency) can be used to capture, quantitatively, important dynamical features of electronic excitation energy transfer in semiconducting polymers.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5037815},
journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
number = 4,
volume = 149,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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