Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulation for carrier transport in a molecular monolayer

Details Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulation for carrier transport in a molecular monolayer Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulation for carrier transport in a molecular monolayer

2012-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/1203.2223v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

26 pages, 10 figures

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We present a new approach to carry out non-adiabatic molecular dynamics to study the carrier mobility in an organic monolayer. This approach allows the calculation of a 4802 atom system for 825 fs in about three hours using 51,744 computer cores while maintaining a plane wave pseudopotential density functional theory level accuracy for the Hamiltonian. Our simulation on a pentathiophene butyric acid monolayer reveals a previously unknown new mechanism for the carrier transport in such systems: the hole wave functions are localized by thermo fluctuation induced disorder, while its transport is via charge transfer during state energy crossing. The simulation also shows that the system is not in thermo dynamic equilibrium in terms of adiabatic state populations according to Boltzmann distribution. Our simulation is achieved by introducing a linear time dependence approximation of the Hamiltonian within a fs time interval, and by using the charge patching method to yield the Hamiltonian, and overlapping fragment method to diagonalize the Hamiltonian matrix.

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