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Role of disorder and fluctuation on charge migration dynamics in molecular aggregate with quantum mechanical network

Chemical Physics 2020-04-01 v1

Abstract

We examine the effect of structural disorder and dynamical lattice fluctuation on charge migration dynamics starting from a birth of local exciton in a quantum network of molecular aggregates by using model Hamiltonians having complicate interactions. Here all monomers are supposed to be the same for simplicity. A natural use of inherent sparsity of Hamiltonian matrix allows us an investigation of essential features in quantum network dynamics accompanied with a fluctuation of interaction. Variation of disorder parameter, kinetic energy and effective mass of monomers in electron dynamics calculation reveal how static disorder and dynamical fluctuation affects electron dynamics in a large size of molecular aggregates. Disorder in aggregate structure suppress charge separation while molecular motion can promote charge diffusion in cases of smaller mass. These findings are obtained by using a newly introduced formula for evaluating charge separation in molecular aggregates that is useful for other analysis involved with charge migration dynamics in molecular/atom aggregates. This work provides a way for obtaining a quantum mechanical time-dependent picture of diffusion and migration of exciton and charge density in general molecular aggregates, which offers a fundamental understanding of electronic functionality of nanocomposites.

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@article{arxiv.2003.13931,
  title  = {Role of disorder and fluctuation on charge migration dynamics in molecular aggregate with quantum mechanical network},
  author = {Takehiro Yonehara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13931},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table