Disorder and Funneling Effects on Exciton Migration in Tree-Like Dendrimers

Details Disorder and Funneling Effects on Exciton Migration in Tree-Like Dendrimers Disorder and Funneling Effects on Exciton Migration in Tree-Like Dendrimers

2001-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106613v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

13 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.65.021803

The center-bound excitonic diffusion on dendrimers subjected to several types of non-homogeneous funneling potentials, is considered. We first study the mean-first passage time (MFPT) for diffusion in a linear potential with different types of correlated and uncorrelated random perturbations. Increasing the funneling force, there is a transition from a phase in which the MFPT grows exponentially with the number of generations $g$, to one in which it does so linearly. Overall the disorder slows down the diffusion, but the effect is much more pronounced in the exponential compared to the linear phase. When the disorder gives rise to uncorrelated random forces there is, in addition, a transition as the temperature $T$ is lowered. This is a transition from a high-$T$ regime in which all paths contribute to the MFPT to a low-$T$ regime in which only a few of them do. We further explore the funneling within a realistic non-linear potential for extended dendrimers in which the dependence of the lowest excitonic energy level on the segment length was derived using the Time-Dependent Hatree-Fock approximation. Under this potential the MFPT grows initially linearly with $g$ but crosses-over, beyond a molecular-specific and $T$-dependent optimal size, to an exponential increase. Finally we consider geometrical disorder in the form of a small concentration of long connections as in the {\it small world} model. Beyond a critical concentration of connections the MFPT decreases significantly and it changes to a power-law or to a logarithmic scaling with $g$, depending on the strength of the funneling force.

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