Varvelo Leonel, Lynd Jacob K, Bennett Doran I G
Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University PO Box 750314 Dallas TX USA
Chem Sci. 2021 May 31;12(28):9704-9711. doi: 10.1039/d1sc01448j. eCollection 2021 Jul 21.
Excited state carriers, such as excitons, can diffuse on the 100 nm to micron length scale in molecular materials but only delocalize over short length scales due to coupling between electronic and vibrational degrees-of-freedom. Here, we leverage the locality of excitons to adaptively solve the hierarchy of pure states equations (HOPS). We demonstrate that our adaptive HOPS (adHOPS) methodology provides a formally exact and size-invariant (, ) scaling algorithm for simulating mesoscale quantum dynamics. Finally, we provide proof-of-principle calculations for exciton diffusion on linear chains containing up to 1000 molecules.
诸如激子等激发态载流子在分子材料中可以在100纳米到微米的长度尺度上扩散,但由于电子和振动自由度之间的耦合,只能在短长度尺度上离域。在这里,我们利用激子的局域性来自适应地求解纯态方程层次结构(HOPS)。我们证明,我们的自适应HOPS(adHOPS)方法为模拟中尺度量子动力学提供了一种形式上精确且尺寸不变的(, )缩放算法。最后,我们给出了在包含多达1000个分子的线性链上激子扩散的原理验证计算。