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Isotopic Effect and Temperature Dependent Intramolecular Excitation Energy Transfer in a Model Donor-Acceptor Dyad

Materials Science 2017-04-05 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider here the non-adiabatic energy transfer dynamics for a model bi-chromophore system consisting of a perylenediimide unit linked to a ladder-type poly-(para-phenylene) oligomer. Starting from a semi-empirical parameterization of a model electron/phonon Hamiltonian, we compute the golden-rule rate for energy transfer from the LPPP5 donor to the PDI acceptor. Our results indicate that the non-adiabatic transfer is promoted by the out-of-plane wagging modes of the C-H bonds even though theses modes give little or no contribution to the Franck Condon factors in this system. We also predict a kinetic isotope effect of k(H)/k(D)=1.72.5k^{(H)}/k^{(D)} = 1.7 - 2.5 depending upon the temperature.

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@article{arxiv.1005.3695,
  title  = {Isotopic Effect and Temperature Dependent Intramolecular Excitation Energy Transfer in a Model Donor-Acceptor Dyad},
  author = {Jaykrishna Singh and Eric R. Bittner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.3695},
  year   = {2017}
}