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Impact of electron-phonon interaction on the electronic structure of interfaces between organic molecules and a MoS$_2$ monolayer

Materials Science 2025-11-11 v1

Abstract

By means of first-principles calculations, we investigate the role of electron-phonon interaction in the electronic structure of hybrid interfaces, formed by MoS2_2 and monolayers of the organic molecules pyrene and pyridine, respectively. Quasiparticle energies are initially obtained within the G0W0G_0W_0 approximation and subsequently used to evaluate the electron-phonon self-energy and momentum-resolved spectral functions to assess the temperature renormalization of the band structure. We find that the band-gap renormalization by zero-point vibrations of both hybrid systems is comparable to that of pristine MoS2_2, with a value of approximately 80 meV. Pronounced features of molecular origin emerge in the spectral function of the valence region, which we attribute to satellites arising from out-of-plane vibrational modes of the organic monolayers. For pyrene, this satellite exhibits a predominantly molecular character, while for pyridine, it has a hybrid nature, originating from the coupling of molecular vibrations to the MoS2_2 valence band.

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@article{arxiv.2511.05781,
  title  = {Impact of electron-phonon interaction on the electronic structure of interfaces between organic molecules and a MoS$_2$ monolayer},
  author = {Ignacio Gonzalez Oliva and Sebastian Tillack and Fabio Caruso and Pasquale Pavone and Claudia Draxl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.05781},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables